GERSHOM SCHOLEM

You sent on July 10th
1934 a copy of The Trial
by Kafka's design
and your own poetic work
with the same name
to Walter Benjamin
with a hidden warning
in a prophetic revelation
but Benjamin will not hear
nor leave Europe
for then Palestine
all the rest is an obituary
on the Spanish frontier
as Benjamin chose
the nations rope
over the mystical divine
of Israel's hope.