– you I dare not love –
your vast softly-embracing love
lays down itself like oil
on the restless sea of my youth –
– while I still intoxicated sleep
between your rocking limbs,
you, laughing, empty
my quiver of arrows –
– you I will not love –
I will see the sun through breaking waves –
to the hard tones from my bow’s string
I will go out to hunt life –