To Truly Fight

To truly fight
you must forget,
forget your beloved,
forget your children,
forget all your loves left behind.
To truly fight
you must remember,
remember your beloved,
remember your children,
remember all your loves left behind.
Remember!
And forget.

From Hineni (Here I Am), a collection of poetry from the front line and the home front, created jointly in the spring of 2024 by the religious literary journal Mashiv HaRuach and the IDF Chief Education Officer's headquarters.

Translated by Levi Morrow