My thoughts of gentle kindness,
birds in metamorphosis—
fly always above the sea,
as if the sea were the mind.
An individual storage of memories and missions,
to which
mortal challenges
do comply.

Going further,
they would become canaries
in the coal mines.
For each artistic sensuality,
danger is the loftier flight.
Thought, without aiming heavens
rests on the earthly side—
ambitious yet bashful,
pious to its soul’s plan.