Roberto Perez-Franco

sacred ground

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Original in Spanish

Your body is sacred groundwhere my longings flow unbridledlike a torrent of flowers,with the perfume of our love.

Your body, my love,—beautiful jewel that drives me mad—shakes my roots as a manand whips me up into wild desires.In you I burst like a wave of passionor fall softly, like dewupon your ground.

Unique creatureof incredible body,of abysmal and sublime curves,of white forms, of soft skin:you seem to me shaped to torment me,to drive me to despair with your inescapable beautyand to make me surrender, maddened, my arms around your waist.

God molded youwith his hands of beauty,gave you wingsand set you free in the sky of his Creation,to show that his work is indeed perfectand so that I would throw myself, enslaved,at the feet of your splendor.