RIVER BEND

I want to return to childhood
and from childhood to the shadows.

         Are you going, nightingale?
                   Go!

I want to return to the shadows,
and from the shadows to the flower.

         Are you going, fragrance?
                   Go!

I want to return to the flower
and from the flower
to my heart.

         Are you going, love?
                   Farewell!

(To my abandoned heart!)