Here and Now, Free from Past and Future

Michal Arbel / translated by Jill Yonassi

There is nowhere to go, but

to be here and now,

to be with the unknown

a breath and another breath

without time.

The past and the future exist only in thoughts;

the birdsong and the whispering wind in the trees

are only heard now.

So much life goes on,

all together

with pain and with joy,

in one harmony.