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One Day | Poem

 
 
ONE  DAY


One day
A great love will come
Like the love of the rain
That washes the borders away,
That grows
In all the rows of wheat in the Middle East.

One day
A long time before the end of days -
And we shall hammer them into peace,
All the words of hate and war.

 
- Yehudith Kafri
translated from Hebrew by Dom Moraes with Aryeh Sivan.
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