Your laughter is light, your caress deep, <br />Your cold kisses love the harm they do; <br />Your eyes-blue lotus waves <br />And the water lilies are less pure than your face.. <br /> <br />You flee, a fluid parting, <br />Your hair falls in gentle tangles; <br />Your voice-a treacherous tide; <br />Your arms-supple reeds. <br /> <br />Long river reeds, their embrace <br />Enlaces, chokes, strangles savagely, <br />Deep in the waves, an agony <br />Extinguished in a night drift.<br /><br />Renee Vivien<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/undine-3/
