I want to live.

Amichai, Yehuda ; Kronfeld, Hana ; Bloch, Hana 等

I want to live till even the words in my mouth are nothing but vowels and consonants, maybe just vowels, just soft sounds, the soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning. I want to live until all the numbers are sacred, not just one, not just seven and not just twelve, not just three, but all the numbers, the twenty-three fallen in the battle of Huleikat, seventeen kilometers to that magical place, thirty- four nights, one hundred twenty-nine days of grace, three hundred thousand speed of light years, forty-three moments of happiness (and the number of the years of my life still x). The history of four thousand years in forty-five minutes of a final at school. And there is no number to the days and the nights - but they too shall be numbered - even infinity will be sacred and then, only then will I find perfect rest.

Translated from the Hebrew By Hana Kronfeld & Hana Bloch