A Place in the Forest

by Tsvi Landsman Shakdiel, Amit Comprehensive High School, Safed

There's a place in the forest where
I'm sleeping when I want
I just go there from any place, at any time
It's alwyas there when I need it,
always there when I'm alone
I can go to the forest, inside....

It's always clean, always sunny,
always big and wide
I't always quiet, always healthy,
makes me feel so good inside
I can run, run away, any day, any night
I can float like a cloud into that magical place,
into that magical source of light.

I can fly above it, or crawl beneath it
or live outside of myself
inside its protective shell
When I want to get there
I just close my eyes, my ears, disconnect and ....

This article previously appeared in TEN - The Youth Newspaper of the Amit & Amal Schools in Safed, Spring 1998.

© 1998, Amal Pedagogical Technological Center