"I Cannot Be Known"

I Cannot be Known

I cannot be known
Better than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
We together
Have made for my man's gleam
A better fate than for the common nights

Your eyes in which I travel
Have given to signs along the roads
A meaning alien to the earth

In your eyes who reveal to us
Our endless solitude
Are no longer what they thought themselves to be

You cannot be known
Better than I know you.

-Paul Eluard