Poem of the Week, by Leah Goldberg (translated by Annie Kantar)
Then I Walked Through the World
Then I walked through the world
as though someone adored me.
Laughter unfurled through heaps of stones,
and a wind through fathomless skies.
Then I walked through the world
as though someone dreamed me fair.
Across the night abysses bloomed
and the sea’s mirrors painted my face,
as though someone were writing poems about me.
I walked, until I reached an utter stillness within:
then, it seemed, something might begin.
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