עשני מפוייסת או שיר של יום חולין

Make me placated or A poem of a mundane day

 

The author: Rachel Shapira

The editor and translator: Avner Shalom

Illustration: Monika G. Glass

The musical editor and performer: Anat Levi Raz

Music: Yair Rosenblum

Reading: Raz Friedman

Audio team: Eshhar Friedman and Lior Yahel Friedman

 

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If I have strings, they are playing vibrantly,

If I have a concern - it is almost exposed,

If I have love within myself, it will be uttered quietly,

If I have roots, they will slowly get longer.

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You see how I suddenly feel trembling,

The wind changes directions frequently

We tried to leave each other but still knowing

We will stay, year after year, togetherly

 

In your own very rooms the sun is sketching,

The lines and strips of light are on the walls,

I am for thee each morning gathering,

Small details, little joys of a routine day wholes.

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Do you reply, do you respond to me?

Maybe my tumults are also all ears hammering,

Maybe you are listening, maybe you are like me,

Suddenly my face is in yours reflecting.

 

This mundane day is a day of grace,

And by Its grace, these very lines are written,

Marry me now and placate me in place,

On such a day, our paths intersect.