Helpless in your beautiful face,
Helpless to triumph over the body,
To secure a new life in a different place,
To say the words sounding like the sea,
Eating your fame insatiably.
Helpless in your beautiful face,
Helpless to love a face less beautiful than your own,
Helpless to put yourself in someone’s place—
They do what they want, and do it alone.
They sail the seas, like you, the surface, the tone…
Helpless in your beautiful face
To make mirrors with soundtrack and plot;
You see only the beauty of your race
And never what the race sees not.
In your country beautiful faces are rounded up and shot.
Helpless in your beautiful face
To continue the beauty in a different sphere;
You will be erased, and there will be no trace
That you once reigned down here,
Where loves and the sea and the moon were near.
