Take me under your wing, <br />be my mother, my sister. <br />Take my head to your breast, <br />my banished prayers to your nest. <br /> <br />One merciful twilight hour, <br />hear my pain, bend your head. <br />They say there is youth in the world. <br />Where has my youth fled? <br /> <br />Listen! another secret: <br />I have been seared by a flame. <br />They say there is love in the world. <br />How do we know love’s name? <br /> <br />I was deceived by the stars. <br />There was a dream; it passed. <br />I have nothing at all in the world, <br />nothing but a vast waste. <br /> <br />Take me under your wing, <br />be my mother, my sister. <br />Take my head to your breast, <br />my banished prayers to your nest.<br /><br />Hayyim Nahman Bialik<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/take-me-under-your-wing/
