Love Poems

Now that You Have Come, by Camillo Sbarbaro.

Now that you have come,
dancing into my life
a guest in a closed room,
to welcome you, love longed for so long,
I lack the words, the voice,
and I am happy just in silence by your side.

The chirping that deafens the woods at dawn,
stills when the sun leaps to the horizon.

But my unrest sought you, when as a boy,
on summer nights I came stifled to the window:
for I didn't know, and it worried my heart.
And yours are all the words that came,
like water brimming over, unbidden to my lips,
the desert hours, when childishly
my adult lips rose, alone, longing for a kiss...

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