“It’s over. I will always speak to you, and I don’t mind if you don’t say anything. Just because you went away, it doesn’t mean you’re not here anymore. Perhaps all I ever needed was this gift. The one you gave to me at the end.”
אשוב אליך (Ashuv Eleicha) (2015)
Yaron Yerahmiel Cherniak
קונצרט תהילה לאלוהינו 5
“אז אשוב, אשוב ואתן לך את חיי
כל פינה שבליבי, את נפשי
שם אתה לי, בקרבי
אתה שם איתי.”
So I am coming back, coming back to give You my life
Every corner of my heart, my soul
There You are for me, within me
You are there with me
The Little Prince (1943)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Chapter Four: the narrator speculates as to which asteroid from which the little prince came
If I have told you these details about the asteroid, and made a note of its number for you, it is on account of the grown-ups and their ways. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?" Instead, they demand: "How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?" Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
One must not hold it against them. Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people.