From Here To There

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From Here to There

Try to get from there to here
spinning like a top;
you can't do it if you fear
what happens when you stop.

Yet I think you'll never get
from there to here unless
you start, while spinning, to forget
that stopping causes stress.

Better getting here to there
turning on a dime;
you can do if you dare
to put your thoughts in rhyme.

Kadya Molodovsky, a Yiddish writer who wrote in rhyme, once said: "Look at me! I may not have asked to be a poet but I sure can rhyme on a dime --- and a good thing, too, for how else who I get from here to there?" Quote by Hillel Halkin in "Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodovsky, translated, introduced and edited by Kathryn Hellerstein (Wayne State University)" ("Angels Arrive," The New Republic, October 18, 1999).