Awake in Me

When night lets down its silken veil
And the first star trembles like a confession,
Then my soul, forgetting all sorrow,
Seeks your breath and burning desires.

Not with the body – oh no! – but only with the heart I wander
In the embrace of dreams, where you are like the voice of rain.
And though I hold you close in my sleep,
By morning – like a shadow – I will let you go.

But every morning of mine is a new discovery,
For the day does not erase familiar faces.
You are in the sky, in the leaves, in the breath of life,
In a silence deeper than the depths of wells.

So let you sound in me forever,
Like a song of love that will never fall silent again.