WORDS

WORDS

As many
before me,
I wrote I love you
in the wet sand
and also drew there
a heart.

As many
before me,
I saw how the waves
washed away the words
and bit-by-bit
the heart.

The words were mine,
but whose was
the heart?

PETAR TCHOUHOV, Bulgaria 1961-
English translation by the author & Stanley Barkan