When your face appeared
Over my crumpled life
At first I understood only the poverty
Of what I have
Then its particular light
On woods, on rivers, on the sea
Became my beginning in the colored world
In which I had not yet had my beginning
I am so frightened
I am so frightened
Of the unexpected sunrise finishing
Of revelations, and tears, and the excitement finishing
I don't fight it
My love is this fear
I nourish it who can nourish nothing
Love's slipshod watchman
Fear hems me in
I am conscious
That these minutes are short
And that the colors in my eyes will vanish
When your face sets
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