perhaps not to be is to be without your being

« perhaps not to be is to be without your being,

without your going, that cuts noon light

like a blue flower, without your passing

later through fog and stones,

without the torch, you lift in your hand

those others may not see as golden,

that perhaps no one believed blossomed

the glowing origin of the rose,

without in the end your being your coming

suddenly, inspiringly, to know my life,

blaze of the rose-tree, wheat of the breeze:

and it follows that I am because you are:

it follows from "you are" that I am, and we:

and, because of love, you will, I will,

we will come to be»