from asking further questions.

Stay with me, don't leave me,

have pity on my impatience

which, scrawled in a prison-ship's log,

will outlast eternity.

Stay with me, don't leave me,

you don't know anger nor will your anger last -

and where would you go, how would you feel

when you are over it? Wait a little, wait,

wait at least until

the postman comes with letters only for you!