Duologue
"Your love is dead. Depart!"
The Black Earth said.
And I:
"She lives! She lives!" replied,
"She lives on in my heart
And, till my heart be dead,
She cannot die!"
"You lie!"
The Cold Earth said,
"For in your heart she died,
Where now a newer bride
Reigns in your old love's stead...
And she. by you outcast,
Is mine - all mine - at last."
(from "The Golden face", 1965)