Fragment #31

#31

O Kypris, help me when

You can, I feel a thin

Fire is racing under skin

          Harken men

I have the need to possess

To you and only you I confess

I know that you will always bless

          Who I caress

Though I may stray

Out on the beautiful bay

Or in the heaped-up hay

          Come what may

What I do goes in my verse

I need new notes to rehearse

He always in my heart will be first

          I am not cursed

When I have this yearning

The fire within me burning

Away, I can’t be turning

          Until he’s returning