I Will Travel Through the Land -
With my retinue of guards,
I will study the eyes of human suffering,
I will see what no one has seen -
But will I be able to describe it?
Will I cry how we are able to do this -
Walk on partings as on water?
How we begin to look like our husbands -
Our eyes, foreheads, the corners of our mouths.
How we remember them - down to each last vein of their skins-
They who have been wrenched away from us for years,
How we write to them: "Never mind,
You and I are one and the same,
Can't be taken apart!"
And, forged in land,
"Forever" sounds in answer -
That most ancient of words
Behind which, without shadow, is the light.
I will trudge with the convoy,
And I will remember everything -
By heart! -they won't be able to take it from me! -
how we breathe outside the law!
What we live by -
Until the morrow.
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