An Arab Shepherd - Yahuda Amichai

[Larry Robinson]

An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion
and on the opposite mountain I am searching 
for my little boy.
An Arab shepherd and a Jewish father
both in their temporary failure.
Our voices meet above the Sultan’s Pool
in the valley between us. Neither of us wants
the child or the goat to get caught in the wheels
of the terrible 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 a son
has always been the beginning
of a new religion in these mountains.

	- Yahuda Amichai
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