Shadows stretch up,

stars light up,

flames shoot up from coal,

and following undisturbed laws,

orbiting in space without pause,

your absence is spinning round in my soul.

Rumbling like sea, the nights percussion,

And the smell of floral passion

strangles my struggling heart asleep.

Lift me, release me from these depths.

Im like a fish delighting in the nets

of your eyes plunging inside me deep.

1937

translated by Michael Castro & Gábor G. Gyukics