To Jehuda Amichaj
For you are king and I but prince
with no country just trusting followers
do I blunder by night
sleepless
And you are king and look me in friendship
and disquiet how many seasons
can I thus wander
the world
Many seasons Jehuda. To the very end.
Even our hands speak different tongues – the hand
of grace the hand of scorn and that
of understanding
I ask of you no thing but understanding
Into sleep by hearth I fall elbow my pillar
night dies in its embers dogs howl
and along hills walk
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