Yehuda Amichai - Forgetting Someone

Forgetting someone is like forgetting to turn off the light
in the backyard so it stays lit all the next day

But then it is the light that makes you remember.


Translated by Chana Bloch

Submitted by Angelica Rodriguez

Yehuda Amichai

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/forgetting-someone/