Doorways are an awesome place

"You shall write them upon the doorposts of your house, and on your gates"
- Deutoronomy, 6:9

"The doorway is a sort of "no man's land" between the home and the street, an area where these two realms overlap and interact with each other..."
- The Chassidic Masters

“Whenever we enter or leave our house, we are confronted with His name, the Name of the Holy One...we will be aware that nothing in this world endures forever, except the knowledge of the Rock of the world, and we will at once come to our senses...”
- Code of Jewish Law


The simple meaning seems to say,
That doorways are a shade of grey,
Between a home and outside street,
For which two lowly worlds compete.

But if I read beneath the text,
Perhaps both this world and the next,
Are symbolized beneath the arch,
Through which we daily, humbly march.

Indeed, we pass through with our “soles”,
Return and run, with noble goals,
And taste a form of higher being,
From things that are worth more than seeing.

Beneath the arch in which I stand,
Indeed, it is a no-man’s-land,
For like a sheep lost in the flock,
I’m try to find the steady Rock.