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With Ten Years Less
If I were ten years younger, how happy
and how shirtless would be the volume of my speech
Every utterance unleashing a storm
and driving those old fashions into madness
The years have, well, gagged my throat, oh girl...
I know so much I've been turned into my thoughts
I would have liked to meet you many years ago,
so that I could ignite sparks from the water you give me
so that I could wield both premeditation and candor
and so I could learn to forget, truly...
This woman proposes that I jump and I crash
into a wall of stones she raises into the sky
and like an engine she fills me up with emptinesses;
with promiseless kisses, and lawless sentences
This women proposes a pact which seals
the earth to the wind; the light to the darkness
She invokes the mysteries of time and tells them my name
This woman proposes that I jump and I crash...
Just for me to see her...
Just for me to love her...
Just to be hers...
And to not forget her.
If I were ten years younger, I wouldn't have waited for her proposals:
I would have gone running
like a wild animal to the bed where we met one another
impurely and bloodied, divine and elated
If I were ten years younger, I would have committed blasphemy;
I'd burn temples to the ground with the sap of your body
To set an example to the cowardly
If I were ten years younger, I would have killed
Just to see her...
Just to love her...
Just to be hers...
And to not forget her.
hakubin✕
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