Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Wicked Awesome Poem Wednesday


Ein 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

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