thank you, sweet

[cihuateteo]

When, with you asleep, I plunge into your soul,
and I listen, with my ear
on your naked breast,
to your tranquil heart, it seems to me
that, in its deep throbbing, I surprise
the secret of the center
of the world.
It seems to me
that legions of angels
on celestial steeds
- as when, in the height
of the night we listen, without a breath
and our ears to the earth,
to distant hoofbeats that never arrive -
that legions of angels
are coming through you, from afar
- like the Three Kings
to the eternal birth
of our love -
they are coming through you, from afar,
to bring me, in your dreams,
the secret of the center
of the heavens.

Jimenez