Who will stay behind, and what? A wind.
Blindness from the blind man disappearing.
A token of the sea: a strand of foam.
A cloud stuck in a tree.
Who will stay behind, and what? A single sound
as genesis regrasses its creation.
Like the violin rose that honors just itself.
Seven grasses of that grass do understand.
More than all the stars hence and northward,
that star will stay that sinks into a tear.
Forever in its jug, a drop of wine remains.
What will be left here? God. Not enough for you?
Translated from the Yiddish