Giraffes
Did you ever wake up in the middle of the night, fur soaked in sweat, galloping through a white desert in a herd of giraffes, an equal among equals? Did you ever look up to see a blue sky, and cried because your neck isn’t long enough to actually touch it? Did you ever ask the giraffe next to you, what death really is, and she answered in an aging giraffe’s panting voice, did you ever wake up in the middle of the night?
Did you ever fall with all of the giraffes, into a deep abyss you saw from afar, but you couldn’t stop, becasue you galloped, slicing the air, and you just didn’t want to stop? Did you ever wake up into a huge pile of dying giraffes, kicking each other, screaming with cracked necks, climbing, climbing on top of each other, figthing for breath. Did you? Did you ever?
(original lyrics by Gilad Kahana and Yair Kez)
