How my body blooms from every vein
more fragrantly, since I first knew you;
look, I walk slimmer and straighter,
and you only wait-: who are you then?

Look: I feel how I am moving away,
How I'm shedding my old life, leaf by leaf.
Only your smile stands like pure stars
over you and, soon now, over me.

-From Sacrifice by Rainer Maria Rilke