You wrote a collection of verses, brief and condensed, like your life. You told nobody about them. Your wife discovered them after your death in your desk drawer:

 

Ferns caress me

Nettles sting me

Brambles scratch me

 

The city hones me

The house welcomes me

The bedroom calms me

 

The enemy encourages me

Combat excites me

Victory leaves me indifferent

 

Day dazzles me

Evening soothes me

Night envelops me

 

Dominating oppresses me

Subjugating enslaves me

Being alone frees me

 

Heat bothers me

Rain closes me in

Cold awakens me

 

Tobacco irritates me

Alcohol tranquilizes me

Drugs isolate me

 

Evil surprises me

Forgetting is desirable to me

Laughter saves me

 

Wishing carries me

Pleasure disappoints me

Desire picks me up again

 

Friendship ties me

Love reveals me

Sex delights me

 

Accumulation tempts me

Keeping reassures me

Daring relieves me

 

The sun wearies me

The earth surrounds me

The moon moves me

 

Life is proposed to me

My name is passed on to me

My body is imposed on me

 

Television depresses me

Radio disturbs me

Newspapers bore me

 

Saints fascinate me

The faithful intrigue me

Priests disquiet me

 

What is unique surprises me

What is double resembles me

What is triple reassures me

 

Equilibrium maintains me

Falling reveals me

Recovery exhausts me

 

A single point hypnotizes me

A constellation scatters me

A line guides me

 

Time is lacking for me

Space is enough for me

The void attracts me

 

The basement repels me

The attic appeals to me

The staircase guides me

 

Talent charms me

Virtuosity fools me

Genius illuminates me

 

Prudence agitates me

Violence excites me

Vengeance disappoints me

 

Thirst bothers me

Hunger enlivens me

Eating puts me to sleep

 

The edge tempts me

The hole draws me

The bottom alarms me

 

The truth moves me

Uncertainty bothers me

Falsehood fascinates me

 

Gossip misleads me

Polemic enflames me

Silence redeems me

 

Obstacles raise me

Defeat hardens me

Success mollifies me

 

Error instructs me

Habit improves me

Perfection obsesses me

 

Offenses surprise me

Retorts come slowly from me

Contempt avenges me

 

Perdition tempts me

Irony neutralizes me

Affection redeems me

 

Faith rattles me

Fidelity suits me

Treason stabs me

 

Departures delight me

Voyages numb me

Arrivals revive me

 

Earth bears me

Sand slows me

Mud traps me

 

Euphoria dissuades me

Innuendo disquiets me

Neutrality convinces me

 

Sermons annoy me

Examples persuade me

Action vindicates me

 

Cleaning bores me

Tidying calms me

Discarding delivers me

 

The new attracts me

The old anchors me

Change animates me

 

Work fulfills me

Hobbies instruct me

Holidays sedate me

 

To know makes me grow

Not to know harms me

To forget frees me

 

Losing is bothersome to me

Winning is a matter of indifference to me

To play is disappointing to me

 

To deny tempts me

To affirm excites me

To suggest is enough for me

 

Seducing seduces me

Loving transforms me

Separating pains me

 

Clothing announces me

Disguises hide me

Uniforms efface me

 

Speaking commits me

Listening teaches me

Silence tempers me

 

Birth befalls me

Life occupies me

Death completes me

 

To climb is difficult for me

To descend is easy for me

To be stationary is useless to me

 

Homage obliges me

Oration touches me

Eulogy buries me

 

The flash blinds me

The beam dazzles me

The reflection intrigues me

 

Speaking identifies me

Shouting frees me

Whispering imposes on me

 

Humming rocks me

Intoning suspends me

Singing unfolds me

 

The beginning enthuses me

The middle sustains me

The end disappoints me

 

Goodness impresses me

Stupidity amuses me

Malice disgusts me

 

November upsets me

April refreshes me

September soothes me

 

Envy indisposes me

Jealousy moves me to pity

Hatred distances me

 

Yesterday wearies me

Sleep immobilizes me

Awakening attacks me

 

The millennium enfolds me

The century situates me

The decade decorates me

 

The hour rules me

The minute hurries me

Seconds escape me

 

Threats fool me

Anguish moves me

Fear excites me

 

Surprise displeases me

Improvisation harms me

Announcements buttress me

 

Traps seduce me

Liars fool me

Informers horrify me

 

The baroque sickens me

The gothic chills me

Novels enlighten me

 

Red irritates me

Black moves me

White calms me

 

The solo attracts me

The quartet sustains me

The symphony distances me

 

Rules serve me

Constraints stimulate me

Obligation extinguishes me

 

Dialogue binds me

Monologue imposes upon me

Soliloquy isolates me

 

The air penetrates me

The ground resists me

The underground smothers me

 

Rhythm leads me

Melody charms me

Harmony troubles me

 

Aquariums sadden me

Aviaries oppress me

Cages revolt me

 

Rain doubles me up

Snow enchants me

Hail stops me

 

My finger draws

My hand catches

My arm enlaces

 

My brain conceives

My eye guides

My body makes

 

The first time tempts me

Its sequel accustoms me

The last depresses me

 

Tiredness calms me

Lassitude discourages me

Exhaustion stops me

 

Constructing obsesses me

Conserving calms me

Destroying relieves me

 

Arriving changes me

Staying costs me

Leaving animates me

 

The group oppresses me

Solitude holds me

Madness stalks me

 

To please pleases me

To displease displeases me

To be indifferent is indifferent to me

 

Age overtakes me

Youth abandons me

Memory remains with me

 

Happiness precedes me

Sadness follows me

Death awaits me