5/16/10

Danti Alighieri

Comes often to my memory
The darkness love has fixed in me
So that I cry, self pityingly
‘what other man has lived this through?’
For love attacks me suddenly
Life’s energies abandon me
One spirit only lives & moves within
Because it speaks of you

Then, I , to save myself, must force
My steps a pallid empty thing
I come to you to be made whole

But when I raise my eyes to yours
My heart is seized with shuddering
That from the blood stream drives my soul

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