The Aleph I I've reached the extreme limits of the universe; To an unattainable place until then To that point in space, where all Creation It was seen before my eyes. I've seen so much that it would never fit in verse: I felt tiny, insignificant; so Small before the Whole, a tiny dot immersed In the Infinite, and amid that, in solitude. And then I realized I wasn't alone: Part of the whole, which covered everything: A sea, a planet, a sun, an insect; And that it was important to God’s work For without that point that I knew was “I”, The whole rest of the universe would be incomplete. II I've been walking, like a praying man. An old litany; and I didn't even give myself That the road had ended; long ago, I saw it He had perished; he was gone. I was in the abyss where you live. The end of everything; happy and alone, I stopped: I have nothing but the turn; I go away Or to have my end there also; I do not know. I've reached where no one, once, He had come; no saint, no king; It was I who saw the dawn most closely, And only then, my God, did I touch myself That reaching him was nothing at that time, And the treading was priceless; and then I returned.