This night
Let me imagine
That there is not
Throughout the expanse
Of being and naught
Only He and I--

For is it truly not so?
In heavens and earth
Who other than He
Knows the loneliness of my path?

This one night
Allow my fantasy
That death
I will not see--

And truly it is so:
The spark that He did blow
Into my life-flame
For all eternity will glow

From the Hebrew by Yanki Tauber, originally published by www.chabad.org.

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