Rainbow’s Child

TTTO “Yalduti Hashnia” by Mati Caspi

[Chorus]

I am a child once again,

Though I was old, and quite ill

I am a child once again,

A thrill

I am a child once again,

Future has happend, not “will”

I am a child once again,

Old man, yes, still

In a new world, these eyes

Are processing these wonders I see

What is now truth and what lies?

Future that I had not forseen

My speech is full of sighs

When once it was subtle with words

I’m learning to live in this world –

A plot slowly is unfurled

[Chorus]

Poems I read with these eyes,

Of birth and of death I have wrote

I will now cheat for the prize

To write once again, and to gloat

I am now full of despise

For all my colleagues in school

What reason is there to live?

My crimes nobody forgives

[Chorus]

Seeing through better eyes

A world that’s of magic full

Though now I should be so wise

I can hardly resist the pull

Though I’ve been used by spies

Still not a day do I regret

For this time, is a gift, this I know

I have now once again where to go

[Chorus]