How could you resist?

            I came loaded with personality

            And flowers

            You left them open,

            Your temples, marketplaces,

            Fields, your cool springs,

            The long grasses and that

            Yielding ground

            I paid homage to your arms

            At first not knowing their embrace

            Was keeping me at bay

            Soon I burned to clutch

            The absent heart that lay in wait

            Off the coast, 

            On the treacherous seas

            Dawn broke serenely as I left 

            My earthly stake behind for good

            And sailed into your straits

            For vanquishing