Unconquerable

Through the bars behind my window you have passed. Through the gap between warp and weft of the curtain you have come into my room. You glided, on tiptoe, over my pillow, you rolled down from the bed onto the carpet. You opened your arms. With the flash of your loving gaze you beckoned to me. I took the wimple off my head. I undid the coarse buttons of my overcoat. I peeled off my colorless calico pajamas. I flung my heavy burdens into the corner of the room. I rolled off the bed like lightning into your arms. With you I have mingled. You dance in my veins, you sing in my heart, with the steadfast melody of union. My kind one, look! They never could enter — stones and borders and chains — the sanctuary of our love...