I Live Here on Paint and on Toxoidby Zeev Kachol
(Translated by Uvi Poznansky) 1992
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I live here on paint and on toxoid My step faltering, against walls, against barriers Around me I see nature destroyed Replaced by some structures for settlers. I live here with no joy, no regret And scribble little rhymes just for me I live... No longer preach at the gate, Nor squash any ants carelessly. In their hiding place they seem to await And observe me, in all probability. I live with no account and no friend No longer try to right wrongs in the world, I cannot tell my future, my end Simply listen to the waves, to my heart. At set, prescribed times I just swallow Pills coded by various pigments And let my mind labor to follow The secret paths of this universe. It is clear to me now: There is no amity There has never been any beginning, And all that is here, that is growing Was here and it always will be. In space there is no upper or lower No right and no left all around, The moment is here, with no past, no forever There is no first, no last or well-found. Only an unending, unstoppable flow And shapes that are shifting at will There is no heaven, only hell and owe There is time, there is space, there is still. There is no happiness, no sorrow, no feeling Only waves dancing without and within In a struggle with no hatred, no foaming Without saints, without angels or sin. So call this entirety: Yin. |
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