Tossing Sins

On Rosh Hashanah, what we do

Is throw our sins away.

We save them up all year, but then

One day we have to pay.

 

A piece of bread (or else a rock)

Is used to represent

Whatever things we’ve said or done

That we’ve come to lament.

 

Some moving water is required –

A river, stream or sea

And into this we toss our sins –

At least, symbolically.

 

Then hopefully our slate is clean.

Some prayers we do impart

So we can face the coming year

With what’s a fresh new start.

 

If only we could take our fears,

Our worries and our stress

And make them likewise disappear –

What joy we would possess!