And Then

By Menachem Froman

(Translated By Neil Fleischmann)

Suddenly amidst the movement
you want to hold on to a fixed point
and just then in the middle of the confusion
you come to believe.
In the midst of the desolation
you find a fresh water spring
Amidst all this all of this.
You get up and say, "Thanks."

 Open closed open.

Before we are born, everything is open in the universe without us.

For as long as we live, everything is closed within us.

And when we die, everything is open again.

Open closed open. That’s all we are.

- Yehuda Amichai