My Neighbor's Curtain...

My neighbor's curtain...

draws aside slowly...

slowly it draws aside...

*

I fancy that she

is breathing the air...

at her green window,

behind the silken curtains...

*

The window opens....

Why is my heart pounding?...

My neighbor knows that my eye

is upon her...

from my window

*

.. But it is a dream...

How foolish I am!

The breeze is stirring my neighbor's

silken curtain...

My neighbor is with her lover...

"Goethe"

Its Colors, a Beauty Mark

... The bird in the valley...

sings in its nest.

Its young died in the night,

and yet it sings, for the coming of dawn...

So am I..

I love... and let pain burst from my heart;

I love.. and let brooks of tears pour

down my cheek;

I love... and with a kiss, I give my genius.

"Musset"