We Did It... Yehuda Amichai...
We did it in front of the mirror
And in the light. We did it in darkness,
In water, and in the high grass.
We did it in honor of man
And in honor of beast and in honor of God.
But they didn't want to know about us,
They'd already seen our sort.
We did it with imagination and colors,
With confusion of reddish hair and brown
And with difficult gladdening
Exercises. We did it
Like wheels and holy creatures
And with chariot-feats of prophets.
We did it six wings
And six legs
                  But the heavens
Were hard above us
Like the earth of the summer beneath.

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