An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion <br />And on the opposite hill I am searching for my little boy. <br />An Arab shepherd and a Jewish father <br />Both in their temporary failure. <br />Our two voices met above <br />The Sultan's Pool in the valley between us. <br />Neither of us wants the boy or the goat <br />To get caught in the wheels <br />Of the "Had Gadya" machine. <br /> <br />Afterward we found them among the bushes, <br />And our voices came back inside us <br />Laughing and crying. <br /> <br />Searching for a goat or for a child has always been <br />The beginning of a new religion in these mountains.<br /><br />Yehuda Amichai<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-arab-shepherd-is-searching-for-his-goat-on-mo/
