“They amputated
your thighs off my hips.
As far as I’m concerned
they are all surgeons. All of them.
They dismantled us
each from the other.
As far as I’m concerned
they are all engineers. All of them.
A pity. We were such a good
and loving invention.
An airplane made from a man and wife.
Wings and everything.
We hovered a little above the earth.
We even flew a little.”
More from Yehuda Amichai
“Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.”
“Sometimes I come crashing down inside myself without anyone noticing.”
“I never felt any sense of separation between an inner and outer world, and I don’t feel it…”
“Love is not the last room: there are others after it, the whole length of the corridor…”