Creation

I fashioned you:

Composed you between darkness and dawn.

You are my best-made poem

The one I labored longest over.

What does one do with a poem?

One gives it to the world.

Go, darling, delight others

As you have delighted me.

Bring your fragrant freshness

To lover and lover.

In their loins sow madness and fever

That my fame may endure forever.