One Farewell May Hide Another by Mois Benarroch

Author:Mois Benarroch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: israel poetry, israel poem, amichai prize, literatura israeli, jewish poetry, jews poems, judaism sepharad
Publisher: Mois Benarroch
Published: 2018-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

OUTSIDE OF EVERYTHING

You are the shadow of my solitude

As I wander alone over the world

And I have not seen your gaze.

The forest searches for its trees

And every day it becomes harder for me

Not to know the expressions of your face

I get lost in your words

And find myself in them

More than in my own

And I get lost in your footsteps

But I follow your oblivion

And lose myself in your memories

Of streets which were never ours

You call me seducer

And I'm the flame of your call

In Madrid you dismiss me

In streets where I never was

Your footsteps bring me

Memories of forgotten rivers

Cakes and candies are sad memories

Suitcases stuffed and no space for our toys

And voyages long as a man's life

Long voyages tracing treeless roads

Tell me more about your parallel lives

In those we met so many times

That in this reality we forget

The needs of the body, of touch

Tell me more about your rejected memories

In the corners of your mind

Where streets vanish

And today I'm alone, alone like the first man

Today I'm alone because you are not with me

Alone in a world where woman is yet to be born

And the years feel heavy to me, like a loaded pack

On my back which is so weary of suffering

Of not finding the cervicals of my happiness

Because what I want today is to hear your voice

In my half deaf ears

Of not having heard you throughout my years

And yes, I can write the saddest verses

But I tell myself one should look towards the future

Towards that future where I see us together

But I don't understand how or when

That already ripe future of those who know

That there's no future in the world

And that time is something we imagine

When we don't understand God

That time is something we invent

So that we can bear death

And we continue to run along the deserted streets

Your hand in my hand

And your face in my eyes

My face in your memory

We continue to run through the years

Which will not return

But which will never be able to vanish again

The years when we searched for each other

Along parallel streets

Rejecting the possibility of meeting

Because then life would not make sense any longer

Let alone the world

To two who are one

The reincarnation

Of thousands of years together

And we had to learn to walk alone in this world

So that we could meet again through words

Words which live outside time and body

Outside of everything but

Not

Outside us.

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