V'Emunatchas Ba-leilot 

They asked her “what’s important?”

As the sun began to set.

“To set the night ablaze with light,

To dance without regret.” 

 

                                                           And when you have just one day left,

                                                           How will you spend it, then?

                                                           I’ll scatter my love from the mountains above,

                                                           Spend it all, till there’s none to be spent. 

                                                            

                                                           And would you  if  could you recoup all you spent   

Gathering stars, building castles of sand?

I’d do it all over, and over again…

Till  hope overflows, like the sea without end.     

 

And as the day turned into night,

They asked her “are you scared?”

As the canyon 'neath their windy perch,

Grew dark and disappeared.   

 

They heard her laughter echo

‘Cross the endless sea of stone

As she turned and leaped, without a word,

Into the dark unknown.