I like you totally, whole and all,
not by the fire of your wet hair,
not for your warm white breasts,
the sweetness of your hip rhythm.
I like you totally, whole and all,
not by your mouth so intact at the kiss,
or the flaming of your body
that you're tingling between your veins.
I like you totally, whole and all,
Not because you're mine and you always belong to me,
or because the life of others I feel
as if it were one's own life.
I like you totally, whole and all,
Not because I'll spend it next to you.
drinking your breath, the deep
the love times you love me.
I like you totally, whole and all,
for that smell of your body that you have;
The smell of a woman who is yours,
Because no one else smells like that in my soul.
I like you all the time,
Because that smell is yours and I found it for me.