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Stay Close to my Heart
Not all sugarcanes have sugar, not all abysses a peak;
Not all eyes possess vision, not every sea is full of pearls.
O nightingale, with your voice of dark honey! Go on lamenting!
Only your drunken ecstasy can pierce the rock’s hard heart!

With Love

With love bitter things seem sweet
With love bits of copper are made gold
Without love soft wax hardens like iron
With love poison turns into honey.

By the Moving, Omnipotent and Everlasting God
For from the moment that you journeyed forth,
we became separated from sweetness like wax;
All the night we are burning like beeswax candles

Invisible Bee

Your soul has become an invisible bee.

We don’t see it working,

but there’s the full honeycomb

No longer a stranger

No longer a stranger,

you listen all day to these crazy love-words.

Like a bee, you fill hundreds of homes with honey,

though yours is a long flight from here.