When love arose in your heart
Like a potent wave of a turbulent sea,
I remained in the seashore
Being the strongest boulders and pebbles,
Then people around praised my vigour,
My adamantine quality, and
I made love to you; in every minute
Twice you kissed me, twice you
Fell in love with my virility.
At every night, in the midst of seclusion,
You would fill me with your brackish essence,
Did I love your fragrance.
But I knew not what dire love resided
In your heart, I knew not
Ephemeral was my strength.
When your waves pounced upon me,
Receiving untold pleasure was I ravished,
I dwindled, I broke,
Day by day I have been reduced to
Infinitesimal sand.
Still you are as mighty as earlier,
And drown me with your torrents,
Dead.