As he woke up in the middle of the night
His heart beat so hard that he got frightened
For the woman who lay beside him laughed
That it sounded as if it were Judgement Day

And he heard her voice elegise
And he felt that she was asleep nonetheless
Since they were both lying blind in the darkness
He only saw the words she called

Why don't you kill me faster?
She asked and weeped like a child
And her weeping came from that cellar
Where the dreams are walled in

How many years do you still want to hate me?
She called and lay uncannily still
Don't you want to let me live on
Because I don't want to live without you?

Her questions stood like ghosts
That are frightened of themselves
And the night was black and without windows
And didn't seem to know what was happening

He, the man in the bed, was in no laughing mood
Dreams are to be truth-loving
But he told himself: "What shall one do?"
And decided not to wake up at night again
Thereupon he fell asleep consoled.