Today you leave For your home and family You tread a star-struck path across northern skies Yet remember one Who, in tears, leaves you happily For he still feels your sanctuary
And you my love With several splendours shining Were I to stain the sound of your flesh with my words Then I would drink deep on those tears To leave you smiling In the hot mid-summer’s morning
If words could change I would turn them into love To let your body sparkle at this leaving And I would make this place a bed With no roof above But changeless words are not enough
Sometime? Later? Will we meet on avenues? Will we once more naked lay inside that peace As lovers in a gangling heap When the loving’s through Will we then say, “we did it too.”(1)
1 We Did It is a poem by Yehuda Amichai and well worth reading