" I love you because you're as crazy as I,
Because all the shadows and lights of the sky
Of existence are centred in you;
The cross-jagged lightning, the roar of typhoon
Are as good as the slumber of time as we swoon
With the sun half asleep in the blue.
You're a dream, you're a mystery, empress and slave,
You're like life, the inscrutable beat of its wave,
You are always the all-unexpected!
When you've promised yourself, then you push me
away;
Because all the shadows and lights of the sky
Of existence are centred in you;
The cross-jagged lightning, the roar of typhoon
Are as good as the slumber of time as we swoon
With the sun half asleep in the blue.
You're a dream, you're a mystery, empress and slave,
You're like life, the inscrutable beat of its wave,
You are always the all-unexpected!
When you've promised yourself, then you push me
away;
When you scorn me, you suddenly kindle and slay;
You hate truth as the lies She rejected !
I love you because you are gallant and proud,
(Your soul is a sun and your body a cloud)
And you leap from my arms when I woo you;
Because you love earth and its worms, you caress
The stars and the seas, and you mock my distress
While the sorrows of others thrill through you !
I love you because my life's lost in your being;
You bum for me all the night long, and on seeing
Me, jest at your tears-and allot mine !
Because you elude me, a wave of the lake,
Because you are danger and poison, my snake,
Because you are mine, and are not mine ! "
Aleister Crowley