LOVE – Poetry by Edith Irene Södergran

LOVE

My soul was a dress blue color of the sky. I left on a cliff, at the sea, and naked I came to you, resembling a woman. And as a woman I am sitting at your table and drank a cup of wine, I breathed in the scent by roses. You found me beautiful, that I looked like something seen in a dream, I forgot everything, forgot my childhood and my country, I knew only that your caresses held me captive. And you’ve got a mirror smiling, hast invited to look at me. I saw that my shoulders were dust and were crumbs in, I saw that my beauty was sick and no longer will, vanished. Oh, hold me close in your arms, so strong that I did not need anything.

(Edith Irene Södergran)

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