Love Without Love.

I love you, because in my thousand and one nights of dreams,

I never once dreamed of you.

I looked down paths that traveled from afar,

but it was never you I expected.

Suddenly I've felt you flying through my soul

in quick, lofty flight,

and how beautiful you seem way up there, far

from my always idiot heart!

Love me that way, flying over everything.

And, like the bird on its branch, land in my arms

only to rest,

then fly off again.

Be not like the romantic ones who,

In love, set me on fire.

When you climb up my mansion,

enter so lightly, that as you enter

the dog of my heart will not bark.

Luis Llorens Torres