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Love is so short, forgetting is so long

"Here I love you"

and you hear me from far away, and my voice does not reach you
Let me come to be still in your silence

Between the lips and the voice something goes dying.
Something with the wings of a bird, something of anguish and oblivion.
The way nets cannot hold water.

I who lived in a harbor from which I loved you.
The solitude crossed with dream and with silence.
Penned up between the sea and sadness.
Soundless, delirious, between two motionless gondoliers.

In you is the illusion of each day

I need 'We Have Lost Even' on my arm.

"and your silence hunts down my afflicted hours"