Ed White wrote:

Blood and Tears:

You were a soldier, a peacemaker, a grandfather.
You were a young girl's pillar of fire.
Now you are gone, gone forever.
Gone in the flash of a gun.

Once again the desert is watered
With a shower of blood and tears.
Once again my own tears water
The desert of my heart.

As I watch from half a world away
Friend and former foe, great and small
Gather together at your grave.
They are joined together by tears and broken hearts.

I think of the one that killed you.
The mind poisoned with anger,
The heart withered with hate.
I weep for him, and I weep for myself too.

How often have I spoken in anger and hate?
How many times have I nursed revenge?
I have taken pleasure in the sorrows of others.
Am I different from Yigal Amir?

But then I see the love professed for you, Yitzhak,
By family and friend and former foe.
And I see your life and death were not in vain.
May your blood and our tears cause the flowers to bloom.

-Ed White

May Yitzhak Rabin be reborn in the highest of heavens.  May his family and
his country transform their suffering into peace.  May my own tears drown
out the fires of my anger.