YOUTHFUL MISTAKE
Is no more than the disease
Of a beast in the night
A POEM BY VICTOR HUGO
naked woman, black woman
Dressed in your color which is life, in your form which is beauty
I grew up in your shadow;
the softness of your hands blindfolded my eyes
And now, in the heart of summer and noon,
I discover you, Promised land, from the top of a high charred pass
And your beauty strikes me right in the heart, like the lightning of an eagle
Naked woman, dark woman
Ripe fruit with firm flesh, dark ecstasies of black wine, mouth that makes my mouth lyrical
Savannah with pure horizons, savannah quivering with the fervent caresses of the East Wind
Sculpted tom tom, taut tom tom that rumbles under the winner's finge
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