I have known sadness When in the solitude of my dark room I looked to the blank ceiling, my mind Impregnated with alien emotions Seeing that the happiness I used to know Has scampered off to a phantom horizon— Untouchable….
And that she who used to be my lover Has become a ghost of memory that haunts me And I have been divorced from the colours of splendour With which she like the artist Once painted my world like a canvass Into a cathedral filled with angelic oblation Of a children choir chanting latin hymns
Now, happiness is buried in a tomb-like quiet Covered by heavy stone of abstract thoughts Surrounded with my heart’s frightening silence Further worsened by her—death—to whom my thoughts Are now betrothed, who bids me to join her As she comes into my head every dusk Dressed like a charming bride to lead me out Through a door, she and she only offers.