A Poem By Yehuda Amichai

For these troubled times.

An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion

And on the opposite mountain I am searching for my little boy.

An Arab shepherd and a Jewish father, both in their temporary failure.

Our voices meet above the Sultan’s Pool in the valley between us…

Afterward we found them in the bushes and our voices came back inside us laughing and crying.

Searching for a goat or a son has always been the beginning of a new religion in these mountains.