Ahavat ha'akher ena ela Loving another is merely
ahavat ha'ani ba'akher. Loving Myself in another.
Ba'akher ani: In the Other I:
Khesronot Shortcomings
Ke'evim Pains
Nikudei turpa Vulnerabilities
Kabala lelo hatnaya the Unconditional Intercourse of
Ahavim. Love.
Lehitama bahem Subsumed
Ulehatmia. Engulfing.
Ulam shel mar'ot, A Hall of Mirrors,
Gvulut ben shtei aratsot nokhriot, Two Bounded States,
Ir prazot an Open City
vehaohev basha'ar, my Lover at its gates,
Gesher khovek a Bridge hugging
tehomot, an abyss,
Migdal mamri, kulo safa belula, a tower, heaven reached, wholly confounded language,
Mabul. a Deluge.
Verak anakhnu, And only Us,
Shnayim beteiva venoakh two of a sort,
li velakh. an Ark, a Covenant.