The life of someone promiscuous is unfocused, unclear Forgetting the crisp morning sun On the face of the young beloved The lines of her eyebrows so sharply defined Loving anyone else so far from his mind She is not unique, but seems so then But after five, but after ten When morning's gone and won't come back again Then carpe diem One morning I crept into your room, Young Kim And watched you sleep for an hour Your face a white oriental flower So vast and soft next to mine Your body, which didn't belong to me Still not quite ready for rousing, moved lazily in rehearsal While mine trembled violently in the sublime suspended animation Of my unresolved arousal That hour took me back to something so pure That hour was, for me, transcendental To long and yet never possess Is, as Rilke said better The best