A flame,
Now red, now white:
The tree of your blood,
The snow of your memory.
What do I see in your sigh
That scatters me
Beyond the frontiers of time
Where history will never tread?
One eye to the growing seed of creation,
And the other
To the eternal nothingness,
With you standing in between,
Holding the sun in one hand
And darkness in the other.
When you said: Yes!
The kingdom of music fell.
When you blinked,
The stars slid into eclipse.
This was the chaos
Preceding the birth of all galaxies.
You came along the Milky Way,
Passing through the arch of the sun,
And gave me a bouquet of poems:
Now your fragrance cradles the air,
And your freshness
Gives rise to new Springs.
Night, night,
I say night
So that I may abandon my senses
By the grace of the deep relief
That flows from your eyes
And puts an end
To the confusion of uncertainty.
Crystallize me
In a drop of dew,
And let me rise
With the warmth of a smile,
To cross the universe in a moment:
This will be the end of restlessness
And the beginning of perfection,
O you,
The order and the orbit
Of all the celestial bodies,
The spirit of the eternal word. |