Do not accept these rains that come too late.
Better to linger. Make your pain
An image of the desert. Say it's said
And do not look to the west. RefuseTo surrender. Try this year too
To live alone in the long summer,
Eat your drying bread, refrain
From tears. And do not learn fromExperience. Take as an example my youth,
My return late at night, what has been written
In the rain of yesteryear. It makes no differenceNow. See your events as my events.
Everything will be as before: Abraham will again
Be Abram. Sarah will be Sarai.
trans. Benjamin & Barbara Harshav
Better to linger. Make your pain
An image of the desert. Say it's said
And do not look to the west. RefuseTo surrender. Try this year too
To live alone in the long summer,
Eat your drying bread, refrain
From tears. And do not learn fromExperience. Take as an example my youth,
My return late at night, what has been written
In the rain of yesteryear. It makes no differenceNow. See your events as my events.
Everything will be as before: Abraham will again
Be Abram. Sarah will be Sarai.
trans. Benjamin & Barbara Harshav
