what the Torah goes through in an entire year,
and sometimes on a good day
we go on rolling, further and further,
past the Torah, past the death of Moses,
through Kings and Prophets and Writings all the way to
Chronicles, to the Chronicles of Love
and back to Genesis, the creation of light and of the world.
And each day God says: "And it was evening
and it was morning,'' but He never says
"twilight." Because twilight is for lovers only.
In this, the second half of his poem, Yehuda Amichai acknowledges God's decree of "It was morning" and "It was evening." God did this throughout Genesis and ended by concluding that "It was good." It sure was. He also created twilight and not only that but inspired (therefore also sanctioned) what goes on at twilight. It's not the creepy nonsense of the Twilight Zone, but rather the secretive and sweet beauty of twilight.
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