Maidenly lake, fathomless lake, <br />Stay as you were once, overgrown with rushes, <br />Idling with a reflected cloud, for my sake <br />Whom your shore no longer touches. <br /> <br />Your girl was always real to me. <br />Her bones lie in a city by the sea. <br />Everything occurs too normally. <br />A unique love simply wears away. <br /> <br />Girl, hey, girl, we repose in an abyss. <br />The base of a skull, a rib, a pelvis, <br />Is it you? me? We are more than this. <br />No clock counts hours and years for us. <br /> <br />How could a creature, ephemeral, eternal, <br />Measure for me necessity and fate? <br />You are locked with me in a letter-crystal. <br />No matter that you're not a living maid.<br /><br />Czeslaw Milosz<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lake/
