Thanks for the feedback! Definitely hard to transmute the magic in poetry to another language, especially working with a low skill level. That was just the quote that popped into my head when I read the prompt and just thought I'd give it a try. I do have a question though. You said there's no Dutch equivalent to the way the present continuous tense is used in the quote, but living in Belgium, I often hear someone at the end of an event say to the host something to the effect of "Merci om me hier te hebben," and that feels like a very natural way to translate "Thanks for having me" so in my head it felt like a nice way to maintain the energy of "thank you for touching me..." Is that just a sort of Belgian street talk that you wouldn't see written? Or is there a nuanced difference that I'm overlooking? Thanks

Ah I'm from The Netherlands so that could well be a Flemish thing. You'd have to ask a Flemish speaker if that's street talk or if you could use that in writing. To me it sounds grammatically incorrect so that's thing to keep in mind if you're communicating people in The Netherlands.