She goes to serve in the IDF
She is waiting for the bus at the stop
It\'s hot to stand in the sun in morning.
The Army heavy rifle as a burden
Pulls back the swarthy shoulder of her.
And the bag - of very great dimensions -
Lies at her feet like a huge mastodon.
In the bag’s pocket there’s a Torah,
On the strap there is a keychain, a phone
She turned eighteen in September new,
The last bell rang loudly a time ago ,
Army riffle well nown type “em-sixteen\"
She knows by heart from school years.
In her huge, brown deep as sea eyes
The biblical skies arise on spirit fire.
Her name is Aviv, or maybe - Tali...
On Hebrew Aviv is spring, Tal is dew.
Clasped out in a uniform neatly,
Chiseled girlish marvellous stature,
She stands, slightly mocking, perky,
It\'s not safe to any fighting with her
The resting cocky black pilot beret
Is pushed under the beige shoulder strap.
Who ordered her to cut her hair so shortly,
To upset men on military training fire field?
Stack of black hair - the antique myrrh -
Like wave swept over her subtle back...
Meet the new recruit, commanders.
Take heart because in war, as in real war.
The bus will take her strait to Hedera,
Or maybe it’l be Nazareth instead.
To an almost peer, an young officer
She will show proudly a new military ID.
Everything will happen just as usual
Without any pathos, the way it should be…
Tall guy, about seventy fife inches
Will put her in a little car Renault
And he will drive in time for fast lunch,
He will offer tea from an ice thermos,
And he’ll repeat to her - ‘Ihye besder’…
-Everything will be fine, a new friend!
The service, course, charter, work will begin,
And the woman, as a brigadier general,
Will allow for her holidays on Saturdays,
And she’ll write the rank in the book - corporal
And yesterday’s civil girl will start
With khaki sleeves, rolled up to the elbows,
Delving into the fluid couplings and oil cans
Of the Israeli tank “Merkava” iron body,
To sip hastily strong coffee in the morning,
Inhale gunpowder fumes and smoke,
And train the guys to drive a tank skillfully
In circumstances close to combat real .
Or on the dream she will remember the teacher,
And a school geography been lesson:
“…In forty-two seconds the usual combatiente
Crosses our country from west to east ...”
From her childhood and beginning
She’ll understand a simple postulate:
Your land is very small, there’r so few of us,
Every resident is a soldier himself.
Next ninety-two weeks will promptly fly by…
She will return back to home, grown up,
And pleasant guy - Ron, or maybe Eli,
Will immediately find her and call his wife
A daughter will be born to them, and sons,
And in Jerusalem at the Wall of Tears
She will place a note between the stones
WhishIng, that there is no war at world!
At evenings, combining daughters braids,
She will repeat her mama’s heartful prayer:
- I still believe: when your adulthood become,
We won\'t have to make war anymore.
...The chestnuts will fall seventeen times,
And the crocuses in the valleys will bloom ,
And it will be restless in the mount Golan -
Bad news will come from the North to them
And her young daughter, funny and perky,
Without regrets for and empty speeches,
Named Lior, maybe Orna, it doesn\'t matter,
immediately will leave the house with a rifle…