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Eternity



If I do not hail
From the lands of the living
Why eternal life
Craves my soul?

Had I not been extracted
From the hills of undeath
Why in the valley of the ephemeral
Do I as a stranger traverse?

Had I not been quarried
From eternity's rock
Why against my mortality
Does my spirit rebel
The decree of my end
Do I daily defy?

Why not
As a withered bloom
As a beast of field
Whose time has come
Meek and tranquil
Do I bow my head
And cease?


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Zvi Yair is the pen-name of the Hebrew poet and Chassidic scholar, Rabbi Zvi Meir Steinmetz (1915-2005). For more on Zvi Yair see www.zviyair.com
From the Hebrew by Yanki Tauber

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Moshiach: an Anthology
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Facing Reality
For Real
Land and See
The Right Not to Know
The Quest for Peace
The Window
The Fifty-Sixth Century
Stories »
The Clock
The Palace and the Pigeons
A Surgical Procedure
The Old Man on the Island
Cholent
Contemporary Voices »
Coming In for a Landing
A Mother's Plea
Timed Out
Between Fire and Ice
Sighting Moshiach
Is the World Really Getting Better?
Cold Soup
Belief in Moshiach
The Truth about Moshiach
A Chaos of Infinite Light
A Taste of Future
Who Believes in Moshiach?
Technology of the Redemption
The Seven Fat Cows
A Gathering with the Rebbe in 1992
Is Judaism a Theocracy?
Skeptic & Believer
Eternity
What Lies Inside
From the Sources »
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