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Inevitable

Everything indicated that our love had ended.

Now our caressing aroused our memory more

than our bodies. However, we didn’t want to

admit to it, we carried on blanketing the cracks

of time with oaths, tears and such other beautiful

and futile exaggerations.

Yet that night when we got up and dressed

silently, when you left, and I didn’t stop you nor

did I call you back and the bed was left sunken

and empty like a grave seeking its dead,

and you found yourself in the street alone

and I was left all alone in the frosty room

I cried — I cried for a long time as I realized

how foreign we had forever been to each other.

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