Line 1. The poet was burning with desire as she lay under the sky that seemed to hurt her.
Line 2. The clouds that were sailing across the sky seemed impersonal to her. Even the trees.
Line 3. Her soul lacked calm and tranquillity. There was turmoil and chaos within her.
Line 4. She was waiting to hear the voice of a loved one.
Line 5. She wanted the phone to ring but it was silent. While so waiting she felt her body go weak.
Line 6. She seemed close to dying of heartbreak caused by unrequited love.
Line 7. What the narrator was most familiar with was the language of human speech.
Line 8. This language abandoned her fingers and stayed beyond reach.
Line 9. It was like the ghosts of Homer’s Odyssey that lay like conches on the beach.
Line 10. At this point, the sky spoke to her unequivocally.
Line 11. This was as common as the heart and more familiar than the love that she was pining for.
Line 12. Speaking to her soul, the sky told her that she already had what she was pining for.
Line 13. The same spirit that permeates nature is also part of her.
Line 14. She is one with the clouds, stars, the wind and the restless sea,
Line 15. Like the hermits in the forest, she is one with nature.
Line 16. She can regain her spirit and be without fear.
Line 17. It does not matter whether she sleeps in a tomb or is alive and breathing.
Line 18. The same universal spirit that lives in a flower and the tiger is in her too.
Line 19. At these words she saw all that was visible.
Line 20. Turn eternal, with every cell that was on earth.
Line 21. Permeated with the sacred fire of passion.
Line 22. Her view of the world was as it would be on the Day of Judgment.
Line 23. When all strife would be at an end and the sky is clear.
Line 24. And the world is filled with everlasting love and brightness.