Her pretty face, that smile,
makes me forget twenty-five years.
How could I not kiss the cheeks
that tempt me to leave paradise?
Fingers that play over the back of my neck like butterflies,
Oh may they always amuse themselves there!
When your thoughts crept into mine
my heart received its guest with emotion.
Never before had I quenched my thirst,
not with beer, not with fine old wine.
Now our lips toast each other,
and this is a very special glass.
I love you and loving means learning,
just like a child who still goes to school,
a boy running blindly through the alleys
often loses his way, in love and completely agitated,
who writes without hesitation like a bird chirping,
who makes a mess of metre and rhyme,
who sees hideous faces scattered in the streets
and his lines behind every line.
You, who show me the beauty in all things,
heal me, who had not understood anything,
embrace me, my shadow has grown old long ago,
I had drifted many years away in the twinkling of an eye,
embrace me, who loves unity, who flees from oppression
and who never enjoyed packing to leave...
Oh embrace, what a home, what April!
What melody and joy, what love songs!
Embrace me, for it is my addition!
What can be like embracing a rose in winter?
