Sometimes as we take a little pause from the everyday things we do, we would often realize that small things can have really great effects in our lives...and that even if we don't quite see the effect, it is there...huge.
If we sow good things, however little they are, we will reap bountiful harvests of goodness and blessings in the future.., but if we invest in something bad, great misfortune will also come to us... perhaps even greater and more vast than we can imagine.
The Diameter of the Bomb
by Yehuda Amichai
The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters
and the diameter of its effective
range – about seven meters.
And in it four dead and eleven wounded.
And around them in a greater circle
of pain and time are scattered
two hospitals and one cemetery.
But the young woman who was
buried where she came from
over a hundred kilometres away
enlarges the circle greatly.
And the lone man who weeps over her death
in a far corner of a distant country
includes the whole world in the circle.
And I won’t speak at all about the crying of orphans
that reaches to the seat of God
and from there onward, making
the circle without end and without God.
This poem seem to relate to what the author has experienced in life. He has had a lot of war experiences. When he was still a young man, he fought in the World War II as a member of the British army. After his discharge, he went to school and became a teacher and went through the war of independence. In 1956, Amichai served in the Sinai war, and in 1973 he served in the Yom Kippur war.
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