Overflow of Caresses

I ask your forgiveness for loving you all at once,
Though my love is an old song already worn in your ears
From the hours I spent beneath the shadow of your gestures,
Drinking from your mouth the perfume of smiles
From the nights I lived cherished,
By the unsayable grace of your steps, forever in flight,
I bring the sweetness of those who have made peace with sorrow.

And I can tell you
that the great tenderness I leave behind
Does not bring you the torment of tears
Nor the seduction of promises,
Nor the cryptic words that veil the soul...

It is a stillness, a temple,
an abundance of caresses,
And it asks only that you rest—quietly, so quietly—
And let the warm hands of night
find the steady gaze of dawn without doom.