I am
Multiple identity: child of the mountains, defiant Hebrew, delirious Sufi, brother of Yechou. A spiritual vision of a new world where love reigns.
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Notebooks of life · Poems · 6 min
To write as close as possible to what is surfacing, without always seeking to conclude.
I am
of all departures
of all wanderings
everywhere I have known cold
hunger and sorrow
but joy too
immense and full
ember of the infinite I was
beneath the stars
I am the child of trees
and mountains
birdsongs
flutter through my dreams
I know no boundary
I eat the bread of springs
the moon is my inn
I am the Hebrew
radical rupture
the wound of heaven
has bled upon me
its gold and its vertigo
I knock unceasingly
at the door of mysteries
I shall sing tomorrow
Thy Name
in Jerusalem
I am the defiant one
slave they would make me
the thieves of the earth
who beat and kill
since the dawn of time
the number of their iron cage
traced upon my arm
from my very first breath
I burned it mingled
into my ashes
and my blood
never to forget
never to forget
I belong to no law
that tears Life
into tawdry fair-day scraps
for stray dogs
I am woven of Life
the immense Life
that nothing can confine
the bread of free Life
shared in love
Thy Word alone is my viaticum
O Father
Thou who dwellest within me
as within Thine infinities!
I am the poor Sufi
all but delirious
from having turned so long
and I turn and I turn
new axis of the world
my foot in the earth
my hand hooked to heaven
and the Sap flows through me
I am a gilded reliquary
wherein the Eternal dwells
I am the brother of Yechou
I overturn the merchants
of every temple
they nailed him with their dogmas
dragged his cross like a banner
to mark their conquests
but Life is stronger
than death and falsehood
I am the man
of the new world
I glimpse it far away
over there
on the bluish horizon
the tumult and the tears have ceased
human beings are no longer
divided competing
they have laid in common
their talents of light
their possibilities of love
all the sublime of their being
Each one knows his rightful path
none diminishes the other beneath his rule
the entire universe is in jubilation
for the children of Adam speak once more to G‑d
in the cool of the evening
Adochem hou haElokim !°
Adochem hou haElokim !
Adochem hou haElokim ! Jérôme Nathanaël - 16 mars 2019
° יְהוָה הוּא הָֽאֱלֹהִים - Adochem hou haElokim - “The Eternal is G‑d”, Deut. 4,39
Note: this poem was originally written in French. The translation is my own.
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