LOVE – Poetry, by Edith Irene Södergran

LOVE

My soul was a light blue dress color of the sky. I left him on a cliff, at the sea, and naked I came to you, resembling a woman. And as a woman, I sat at your table, and I drank a cup of wine, I breathed in the scent of roses. You found me beautiful, that I looked like something seen in a dream, I have forgotten everything, forgotten my childhood and my country. I knew only that your love kept me prisoner. And smiling you took a mirror, hast invited to look at me. I saw that my shoulders were dust, and went into crumbs. I saw that my beauty was sick, and no longer will, it vanishes. Oh, hold me close in your arms, so strong that I did not need anything.

(Edith Irene Södergran)