You rise the water unfolds <br />You sleep the water flowers <br /> <br />You are water ploughed from its depths <br />You are earth that takes root <br />And in which all is grounded <br /> <br />You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound <br />You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow <br />You are everywhere you abolish the roads <br /> <br />You sacrifice time <br />To the eternal youth of an exact flame <br />That veils Nature to reproduce her <br /> <br />Woman you show the world a body forever the same <br />Yours <br /> <br />You are its likeness.<br /><br />Paul Eluard<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-rise-the-water-unfolds/
