FAREWELL TO THE SEA No matter how much I try, as I bid you farewell, To keep the whole of you in my enclosure Of loneliness, no matter how much I want To drink your bottomless eyes, Your long silvery evenings, The vastness of your gesture gray and cold, I know that once back at your shores, We will feel apart. Never more will I see you again With these eyes I behold you today. This scent of apples, Where does it come from? O dream of mine, My sea! Melt me, strip me Of my flesh, of my mortal Dress! Leave me in the sand, And let me be another child, A flow of placid water That comes rolling back, to your salt-laden Source, to live your life As though a wistful river! Glistening globes of foam… Rowboats Drowsy and vague…Children Mopping up the honey Of the westbound sun!.. How new and fresh and clean This world is!.. Every day is born from the sea, Treading the paths that surround my soul, and running To hide in the dark, gloomy, nocturnal oil; Returning to its origins and beginnings. And must I leave you now And set off anew?…