In translation

When you awake, my room is ochre,
        adrift, I mistake your breath for autumn.

The seasons change like that,
        we make efforts to capture the moments.
The way one is with another,
        bitter and sweet, like a hammer meets a string.
And then departs, like the lift of the key.

I too will leave the scene, make way, wake me
        as you leave me.

2020-09-24