Such Words That Lovers Whisper

Pages 298 and 299 in “Kafka on the Shore” by Haruki Murakami as published by Vintage in 2005.

Such words that lovers whisper —
No dictionary captures
Those quirks and connotations,
So please don’t say
I don’t deserve you
When what it is that your heart tells you
Is that it lacks the wish
To make me truly yours,
For where these ruby chambers
Of ours are involved
All smiles and looks and touches
Are fragments of a feeling
That fills with hope a hopeless body
And turns into a burden
The sound of three soft syllables