On the good and the bad in the human soul.

The good and the bad that are in the human soul are two waterways that lie side by side. One, the water body of evil, is actually a sea, a wide ocean, deep in many explorations, infested with various and strange fish, sea plants and reefs - a world that surpasses all your imaginations, is endlessly amazing in its variety of colors and possibilities. And you, jump into it, swim here, swim there, dive and rise and dive again - and you will not reach the secrets of its mysteries, and the abyss of its darkness will not lighten.

Whereas the good, the good is a kind of small lake, no, not a lake - a swamp, or rather, a small puddle, as the one that gathers in the hole in our yard after a rainy night. Of course from time to time someone tries to enter the good that is near us. He climbs on a high stone, spreads his hands forward, bends his knees, bounces in a spring-jump air and ... his head hits the bottom, and immediately he rises and comes out limping with a broken rib, cursing the whole world, and two of our acts of charity in a form of two old frogs, raise their heads in utter surprise from the muddy water, And croaking after him in amazement: Koa-koa? Koa-koa?

Hanoch Levin from "The Eternal and Beloved Patient", published by Kibbutz Hameuchad, 1986.