The light of your body shined and over

your shoulders remained its glow: your smile

was a caress, blind at birth, that appeared

to see: and behind its silent eyelids

like a tranquil lake where the soul is freed

of the horrors that are seen in the world,

its peaceful waters flow: behind the white

eyelids where silver birds and flying stars

were viewed, happy kisses at odds to seek

entrance to those pale caves, from the spines

of swans in the faithful sky pure thoughts flew.

 

Like a flowering branch, a sober white

river  the ocean made flow, a friendly

woman peered at the blinded: and shaken

and aflame became covered in roses,

while the lover kissed her hands completely

covering them with hundreds of kisses:

by the same wreath they’re woven together

over their generous lives: large flowers

sleep the long siesta in their shadows.

 

Who can bridle a colt who sniffs the field

and battle, and confined in its harness,

sees as when it’s biting, his cruel master,

in rebellious moments, behind its eyes

can be seen the poor blind and enslaved soul.

–Oh and as such!– the nonsensical say

they have not seen souls– Oh that you could!

when over the burnt wheat fields, an army

of sun rays launch from the sun and as sparks,

even glitter in the air, grow greater

over the ample countryside.  Helmets

go into motion in my shining pen!

If you could see how the ocean, broken

and black, capsizes the unhappy ship,

and obstructs the strong one: if you could see

unhappy soul, how the Earth when the Moon

is full is illuminated as though

dispossessed on the air it goes slowly

seeking  the flowered home of its lover!

It must be, it must be like that person

touching the top of a child’s head!

 

–Silent, blind.  Like life seized in a flower,

Instantly seeing blind no more–“It shines,

this will be called the Moon. ” Look, look, what sea

made of light!  Abysses, ruins, and caves,

because of her all is chastened with light

like the breast of a white dove glows at night!

Nothing more? asked the blind one then and turned

now opened eyes to a jealous lover

and kissing her humbly while trembling

said: moonlight nothing new to a lover.