Woman In Love

That is my window. Just now

I have so Softly Wakened

I thought that I would float

How far does my life reach

And where does the night begin.

I could think that everything

Was still me all around;

Transparent like a crystal's

Depths, darkened, mute.

I could keep even the Stars

Within me; so immense

My heart seems to me; so willingly

It let him go again.

Whom I began perhaps to

love, perhaps to hold.

Like something strange, undreamt- of

My fate now gazes at me

For what, then, am I stretched out

Beneath this endlessness

Exuding fragrance like a meadow

Swayed this way and that,

Calling out and frightened

That someone will hear the call

And destined to disappear

Inside some other life.