I

The Earth will become a wicked stepmother 

If your soul sells my soul.

Waters carry a chill of tribulation. 

The world has become more splendid 

since you made inc your ally in love, 

when beside a hawthorn

we remained without words:

and love, like the thorny tree, 

pierced us with fragrance.

But the Earth will make your body 

bloom with snakes

if you sell my soul.

I will crush these desolate knees 

that hold no child.

The radiant Christ within my heart 

will be extinguished;

the hand of the homeless wanderer 

will be broken

and the anguished woman will be 

driven from the door of my house.

II

The kiss you give to another 

will reach my ears 

because deep caverns return 

your words to me. 

The dust of roadways 

guards the scent of your footsteps. 

Like a deer, I will follow them

Through the mountains.

Above my house,

the clouds will paint the image 

of the one you adore. 

Thief! You will have to hide 

to kiss her in the bowels of the Earth, 

and when you lift her face, 

you will see my face, wet with tears.

III

God does not desire sun in your life 

if you do not walk with me. 

God does not want you to enjoy refreshment 

if I (10 not tremble in your waters. 

He only wants you to sleep

next to my gathered braids.

IV

If you go away, 

you will trample my soul, 

even in the moss upon the road. 

Thirst and hunger 

will sink their teeth into you 

on every mountain or plain, 

and in every country

bloody afternoons will display my wounds.

And my name will fall in drops 

from your tongue although you speak 

the lame of another woman, 

and in your throat, I will nail myself, 

a briny vestige.

And when you hate or sing or worry, 

you will only clamor for me!

V

If you go away from me 

and perish in a distant land, 

your cupped hand 

will receive my tears 

for ten years under the earth.

You will feel how my miserable flesh 

trembles for you

until my bones shatter and spread 

their dust over your face.

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