Interior Portrait
You don’t survive in me
Because of memories;
Nor are you mine because
Of a lovely longing’s strength.
What does make you present
Is the ardent detour
That a slow tenderness
Traces in my blood.
I do not need
To see you appear;
Being born sufficed for me
To lose you a little less.
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