At last at last I find you back
You who had been only
absent like a young she-wolf
Or like the still water in a moat
Escaping into the summer sun
You can welcome me with open arms a hundred times
It is always the first time
Absent as a sovereign
One sees walking past between the hedges
O you so close and so far away
As soon as love spins its yarn
Between our fingers out of tune
You can welcome me with open arms a hundred times
It is always the first time
The hunger for you that devours me
Bends my knees and my arms
I will never have enough amphoras
Nor enough words again and again
To calm it down
You can welcome me with open arms a hundred times
It is always the first time
The thirst for you that makes me tremble
My lip ever so parched
My love what do you figure
Is it to live together or not
That will quench me of it
You can welcome me with open arms a hundred times
It is always the first time
The love of you that makes me exist
Has no other reality
I am but a name on your list
A mark that the wind on the path
Erases before it was
You can welcome me with open arms a hundred times
It is always the first time