Poems (Bibesco)/XXIX

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XXIX
My love, I do not ask an oath from you,What are the words that you could say to me?I want no lover swearing to be trueWith broken liens on immortality.
My love, I do not want an oath from youRobbing our silence of its sanctity.Where could we put a word between us two?A chain to clang the charm of liberty.
I would not make a prison of my soul.How could I love you if you were not freeEven of my love? And you yourself the wholeRepudiation of the blasphemy
That stains with words the silences of love.We will go out together and alone,And to ourselves and to the whole world proveThat a caged bird is just a bird that's flown?
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Yet I, my love, am but the lonely wayThat your love trod. And should you wish to takeA different road, I will not bid you stay.Some hearts must wander and some hearts must break.
But with my broken heart I still would blessThe beauty that you only could distil,For I have given you that great emptiness,A heart and soul that one man could fulfil.
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