I Ask for Silence

So now allow them leave me in peace.

Now permit them get on without me

I am going to shut up my eyes.

And all I want are five things,

five precious roots

One is unending love

Second to witness autumn.

I cannot exist unles leaves

are flying and fall back to earth.

Third is ritual winter,

the rain I lov the fire's

caress in woodland cold

Fourthly, summer

rounding like watermelon.

The fifth thing is your eyes

Matilde my love

I've no wish to drowse without your eyes,

to breathe unles you direct the eye at me:

I'll trade spring for you

to pass on looking at me.

Friends, that's all I want.

It's nearest to nada and almost todo.

So now if you will you can go

I've lived in like manner much, one day

you'll be forced to forget me

wipe me clean from the slate:

my heart was unstoppable.

But because I ask for silence

don't think I'm about to die-

it's just the opposite:

it in like manner happens I'm all set to live.

It happens I am and still am.

Well, not unles grain

starts growing inside me

kernel at first breaking through

soil to diocese the light,

yet mother earth is dark,

and inside me I am dark:

like a well whose water

night globules stars into

then moves upon alone through the field.

The point is I've lived with equal reason much

I want to live that a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of more.

Never have I round so clear

or held for a like reason many kisses.

Now, as at any time it's early.

The light is winging with bees.

Let me alone with this day.

I ask leave to be born.

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