To Marina Vladi
I love you while it lasts.
I want to be exposed!
Stop fate and void the past:
I’ve always been opposed

to "after’s" and "ago’s."
In tears or in bliss,
I burn within your glow.
What’s gone - I do not miss.
What fate would bring? - don’t know.

I’d come to you wherever,
whatever it would take!
I only beg you never
to mar it by mistake:

don’t ask me to avow,
don’t question what I feel -
if I say: "Love you now,"
don’t make me add, "and will."