Sunday, May 31, 2009

The Smell of the Future, 8 Sivan, 4:30a.m., Jerusalem

You'd think it was the country -
Night sky moving west
To make way for dawn -
Stars out clear -
That smell of fresh earth
From new-turned fields
Coming from some where
In the chill night air:-
Far off - a bird call -
As if he couldn't wait
For the morning's early song.

I may be wrong but -
Short of life -
I'd give everything I own
To have that hour
The world I wake to
All future days - all its days long.