The sea is like love:
you come in and you don't know
if you're going out.

How many did not eat away their youth---
fatal dives, fatal dives,
ancestors, wells,
rocks unseen, suckers, sharks, jellyfish---all unseen.

Alas, if we cut the waves just because some drowned!
Alas, if we betray the sea, because he has ways to swallow us!
Alas, if we refuse to love as it confuses and torments!

The sea is like love:
a thousand enjoy it,
while one pays for it.