Sorrow and Joy - Yehuda Amichai

[Larry Robinson]

Sorrow and Joy

Sorrow and joy, alternating
like water and vapor and ice,
sorrow and joy in the same substance.
We knew.

Love and unlove, two colors
in a single rose, it’s wonderful,
an achievement of the rose’s cultivator
whose name stays with the rose.

Many years later we met again
without pain, each of us with our own tranquility.
That was the Garden of Eden
but it was also hell.

	- Yehuda Amichai
	(Translated by Robert Alter)





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