An Arab Shepherd Is Searching For His Goat On Mount Zion - Yehuda Amichai

[Larry Robinson]

An Arab Shepherd Is Searching For His Goat On Mount Zion
An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion 
And on the opposite hill I am searching for my little boy. 
An Arab shepherd and a Jewish father 
Both in their temporary failure. 
Our two voices met above 
The Sultan's Pool in the valley between us. 
Neither of us wants the boy or the goat 
To get caught in the wheels 
Of the "Had Gadya" machine. 

Afterward we found them among the bushes, 
And our voices came back inside us 
Laughing and crying. 

Searching for a goat or for a child has always been 
The beginning of a new religion in these mountains.
	- Yehuda Amichai
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