A Berachot Poem

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A Berachot Poem

Here is a little poem that I think I wrote for the Berachot book, but I forgot all about it until I discovered it among some papers!
I hope you like it!

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If the World is Hashem's...

If "the world is Hashem's
And all that it contains"
Then what belongs to us?
Surely, nothing now remains!

How can we enjoy the world
Eat food, drink drink, and smell the flowers,
When all these things that we are taking
Are not even ours?

Well, it's quite true that first of all
Hashem owns all He made,
And were it not for Berachot
Then that's how it would have stayed,

But, thankfully, to make Creation ours
There is a way...
Oh, no!  We needn't pay!
We simply need to say, "Thank You!"
With Berachot every day!

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(See also page 26 in The TorahSchool Berachot Workbook)