Rainer Maria Rilke

MI-E INIMA CA O FEMEIE-N FAŢA TA

Mi-e inima ca o femeie-n faţa ta.
Şi e ca Ruth, a lui Noemi noră.
Lîng-ai tăi snopi, cît ziua e de mare,
trudeşte printre slugi, din auroră.
Dar către seară-n valuri se cufundă,
se scaldă şi cu grijă se-nveşmîntă,
vine la tine cînd e pace-adîncă,
vine şi ţi se-ntinde la picioare.
Şi-n miez de noapte de-o întrebi, ea spune-aşa
cu-adîncă simplitate : Ruth e sluga ta.
Întinde-ţi aripile peste sluga ta.
Tu eşti urmaşul...

Şi la picioare-ţi doarme-apoi tăcut,
inima mea, fierbinte de-al tău trup.
Şi-i o femeie-n faţa ta. Şi e ca Ruth.




MY HEART IS LIKE A WOMAN IN FRONT OF YOU

My heart is like a woman in front of you.
And is like Ruth, Noemi's daughter in law.
By your sheaves, all day long
she is toiling since dawn among the servants.
But in the evening she sink into the waves
to bath herself and carefully she puts her clothes
and she comes to you when it is deep peace,
she comes and stretches herself at your feet.
And in the middle of the night if you ask her
she answers with deep simplicity : Ruth is your servant.
Stretch your wings over your servant.
You are the heir...

And at your feet she gets asleep
my heart, wormed by your body.
And she is a woman in front of you. And she is like Ruth.