LOVE

My soul was a light blue dress of the sky's colour;

I left it on a rock beside the sea

and naked I came to you and resembled a woman.

And as a woman I sat at your table

and drank a bowl of wine and breathed in the scent of some roses.

You thought I was lovely and that I resembled someone you had seen in a dream,

I forgot everything, I forgot my childhood and my homeland,

I knew only that your caresses held me captive.

And smiling you took a mirror and bade me look at myself.

I saw that my shoulders were made of dust and fell apart,

I saw that my beauty was sick and had no will other than – to vanish.

O, hold me close in your arms so tightly that I need nothing.