I open my eye and
I am watching you.
My shoulder, my heart, this cold,
everything was waving behind it
just like a comet tail.
I extend my arm towards you -
five beaming flags - the fingernails
are flashing risen on a single,
unseen column.
My temple, my cheek I adjoin
to your temple, your cheek,
and when I tell you: I love you -
my body is just the first letter, I,
and the rest is
a flinging.
Only in sleep do I scatter
equally inside myself,
but then I am embraced by
dreams from another planet
full of statues immitating
the absurd, infernal shapes
of unmovement -
and that embossed body does not
belong to me.
Translator: Vasile Andreica
see more poems written by: Nichita Stănescu
