God Full Of Mercy
July 6, 2023Do Not Accept
July 6, 2023Ein Yahav
A night drive to Ein Yahav in the Arava Desert,
a drive in the rain. Yes, in the rain.
There I met people who grow date palms,
there I saw tamarisk trees and risk trees,
there I saw hope barbed as barbed wire.
And I said to myself: That’s true, hope needs to be
like barbed wire to keep out despair,
hope must be a mine field.
Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was an Israeli poet who is considered one of the most important literary figures in modern Hebrew literature. His poetry often dealt with themes of love, war, and the search for identity, and his most famous works include "Open Closed Open" and "The Diameter of the Bomb."