"Eros."
"I had thrown my chair to the hotel window,
to watch the rain.
I was in a kind of dream, or trance -- in love and yet,
I wanted nothing.
It seemed unnecessary to touch you, to see you again.
I wanted only this: The room, the chair,
the sound of the rain falling hour
after hour in the warmth of the spring night.
I needed nothing more, I was utterly sated.
My heart had become small; it took very little to fill it.
I watched the rain falling in heavy sheets
over the darkened city.
You were not concerned.
I could let you live as you needed to live.
At dawn the rain abated.
I did the things one does in daylight, I acquitted myself,
but I moved like a sleepwalker.
It was enough, and it no longer involved you.
A few days in the strange city.
A conversation, the touch of a hand.
And afterward, I took off my wedding ring.
That was what I wanted: to be naked."