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“When I leave this body,
people will ask—
what did he do with his life?

I knew you, beloved.
That was enough.”

“When the sun and moon set, they climb another sky.
When you see me going down, see me rising.
A bucket disappears in the well and comes up full.
A seed is buried in the ground.
A flower sprouts.
Why imagine another fate for the seed of the human soul?”

“You play the strings of my heart.
You play a new chord—
light of mine, love of mine, eyes of mine—
you are music-the melodies, the fade-out, and the memory of it all.
Each breath with you, a new note, a new color.
Every chord you strum lifts a curtain from my eyes, waking me from oblivion, from all my forgetting.”

“I’ll never tire of you.
I’ll never stop thirsting for you—
that’s my only fault.”

“This seam might hold
This seam might split.
I give my heart anyway.
Separation might tear my robe to shreds.
His scissors might wound me—
I know. I give my heart anyway.”

“You show your face, your flushed face,
and stones spin with joy.
(…)
When I see your beauty, when I see your virtue,
I don’t need those two or three hanging lanterns,
I don’t need the moon.
The old rusty heavens are no mirror for your face.
You breathe in, you exhale, and from the tied up, tightfisted world, a new world is born.”