Venice masks

Saturday, 5 March 2016

You are the seed - Karin Boye

You are the seed and I your soil.
You lie in me and grow.
You are the child expected.
I am your mother now.

Earth, give your warmth!
Blood, give your sap!
An unknown power requires today
all the life I have had.

The flowing warm wave
knows no dam on earth,
wider it wants to create,
breaks its way forth.

That is why it hurts to the living quick
inside me now:
something is growing and breaking me –
my love, it is you!
Karin Boye (1900 - 1941) Sweden
Translated by David McDuff
Posted by Bruce-the-Sheep at 15:52

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous5 March 2016 at 21:25

    Enjoyed this thank you for everything

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