In the cave, in the cave
the walls were moist from the breath.
But it wasn't your breath,
it wasn't you breathing,
the sky was breathing for you
and the rivers and the sea and the stars
were breathing for you.
Outside, the branches were bearing blossoms
and the wind was calming the sea under
the sky of Palestine,
and our mistrust
was spreading like blossoms
our wish to touch the wound
with dry eyes
was spreading like blossoms.
Water poured into your dreams.
Into the water you were plunged
when you got your name for the second time.
Did you dream, did you know,
that you would dream?
Into the air you will be plunged
when you get your name for the third time.
Father released the clouds.
Father filled the hours
with waiting.
We all waited. You, too.
We, all made by the Word,
waited.
The water expelled you.
Water as air.
You dressed in a white cloud.
People believed in this morning,
they believed,
as the lamb fell asleep in your heart.
You are gone. We have stayed.
We look into the sky and into the abyss
to see the disappearing trace of your sacrifice.
We listen to the sky and to the abyss
where with terrible noise
a light is breaking.
Prevod: Nikolai Jeffs
V votlini, v votlini so
se od sape rosile stene.
A ni bila tvoja sapa,
nisi dihal ti,
nebo je dihalo zate
in reke in morje in zvezde
so dihali zate.
Zunaj so veje rojevale cvetje,
veter je umirjal morje pod
nebom Palestine
in naše nezaupanje se je
razraščalo kot cvetje,
naša želja otipati rano
s posušenimi očmi
se je razraščala kot cvetje.
Voda ti je tekla v sanje.
V vodo si bil potopljen,
ko si drugič dobil ime.
Si sanjal, si vedel,
da boš sanjal?
V zrak boš potopljen,
ko boš tretjič dobil ime.
Oče je spustil oblake,
Oče je napolnil ure
s čakanjem.
Vsi smo čakali. Tudi ti.
Vsi, narejeni z Besedo,
smo čakali.
Voda te je izločila.
Voda kot zrak.
V bel oblak si se oblekel.
Ljudje so verjeli temu jutru,
verjeli so,
ko si je jagnje zaspalo v srcu.
Odšel si. Mi smo ostali.
V nebo in brezno gledamo,
kako se izgublja sled tvoje žrtve.
Nebu in breznu prisluškujemo,
kjer se s strašnimi poki
lomi svetloba.
