When the Moment Comes to Remember the Sun

  
 Many, many ages have passed, I do not see you.
 Your eyelids that flutter and tremble
 draw me so deeply.
 For so long I have not drowned my eyes in yours…
  
 For countless millennia I have not heard the sound of your breathing.
 In weariness, in fatigue, your drowsy body's
 soft turning from side to side—I have not heard
 that gentle snoring from your nose.
 For so long, nose has not touched nose…
  
 For countless eons I have not breathed your chest's fresh fragrance.
 After office hours, in the wide meadow of your tired chest,
 my face has not hidden in that intoxicating scent.
 For so long, chest has not touched chest…
  
 Through lifetimes I have not kissed your cheek.
 With drowsy limbs, breaking the silence of that sloping path,
 you have not knocked at my door for days and days.
 For so long, no tenderness has warmed your eyes.
  
 How much time, a thousand nights, countless hours, elusive moments
 have passed without you, keep passing.
  
 Each instant of being apart from you,
 in what fierce rebellion does this heart
 pierce me with arrow after arrow of separation…
 How can I make you understand!
  
 In the soundlessness of battles wrapped in silent shrouds,
 my personal city lies defeated today in deep melancholy!
  
 Into this city of mine, no one but you can enter!
 Except for you alone, I have declared curfew for the rest of the world!
  
 The realm where you alone hold absolute dominion—look,
 there you are absent!
 In my here, in this garden, in this courtyard…nowhere can I find you!
  
 Though I may not come close, still
 riding on the wings of solitude
 I keep touching, touching your invisible body…
 Accept me, O beloved!
  
 I love you, friend!
 With all of you, I love all of you!