To be in Love

To be in Love

To spring impetuously in air and remain
Treading on air for three heart-beats or four,
Then to descend at leisure; or else to scale
The forward-tilted crag with no hand-holds;
Or, disembodied, to carry roses home
From a Queen's garden – this is being in love,
Graced with agilitas and subtilitas
At which few famous lovers ever guessed
Though children may foreknow it, deep in dreams,
And ghosts may mourn it, hunting their own tombs,
And peacocks cry it, in default of speech.

--El grande, único y fabuloso Roberto Tumbas