Married Life
Inadequate Words for an Ineffable Unity,
Feelings in Thought, Such As May or June(ity),
Goethe: "Love is Ideal, Marriage is Real"
Often I Pull North, My Wife Southereal,
If I Follow My Compass Regardless,
Temperature Rises Despite Latitudeness,
Chava "Keneged", Opposite, Corresponding,
To Adam, Depending on My Dictionary Thing,
Dissonance or Harmony Says the Crib,
Either Way, My or Each Chava Came From Our Rib,
The "Samech" Circle Symbolizes a Gold Ring,
Samech Makes It's Chumash Beginning,
In "Vayisgor" Meaning "He Closed Over",
Adam's Missing Rib Gash Hashem Did Cover,
Samech as a Word is Support,
North or South is Our Tug of War,
If I Head South and Shed for the Climate,
I Can Dress My Missing Rib, Heal My Mate,
Or I Insist, Resist, And Can Holler & Hoot,
And By Doing So, Shoot Myself in the Foot!
Chava and Gila
Chava and Gila
Chava and Gila
Happy Israeli girls
Dancing all night and day
Trips on the best airways
Their lives were a breeze
Doing as they pleased
Then
one
gray
dark
day
The dancing stopped
The fun was over
War had come
They took cover
In bomb shelters
They did swelter
Never to sing
Never to sing
Never to sing --
or dance again anymore
Chava and Gila
Chava and Gila
Chava and Gild
Grew up before their time...
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