You are alive,
though not established in time,
and not of a time that's known.
You are alive,
though not in spirit and soul:
for you're soul to spirit's soul.
You are alive,
but not like breath in a man-
whose end is the moth and the worm.
You are alive,
and those who reach your secret discover
delight in the world,
and eat and live forever ...
Quoted after: Cole, Peter (Trans.) (2001). Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press. P.143
Last updated: 2003/10/09