Paisean

“I do lámhasa ag snámh ar uisce atá mé.                       

Ní hea, ach is mise uisce.”                                               

“I do lámhasa, is uisce mé,” a deir tú.                                   

Is tusa uisce agus snámhaimse ionat; i do lámhasa.           

Agus is mise uisce fosta.                                               

Is tusa an mhuir agus is mise an abhainn,                       

Casaim thar do chorp                                                           

Agus scaipim                                                                       

I bhfarraigí dearga                                                            

dó ghrá.                                                                       

Passion

“In your arms I am swimming in water.

No, but I am water!”

“In your arms, I am water,” you say.

You are water and I swim in you; in your arms.

And I too am water.

You are the sea and I the river

I meander over your body

and disperse

in the red seas

of your love.