Looking back
down the long path
I don’t believe I would have done
anything different.
Tonight By Charles Bukowski
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Did I love you? I did, who cares!
I held you; I placed you to the deepest inside of me.
I took, caressed your hair, I kissed..
I drank, sip by sip, your beauty.
Did I love you? I did, for sure.
It was with me, the most terrible one of yearnings
I got mad, how far you were…
It wasn’t love, this was something else that never got enough
Did I love you? I did, actually.
While loving, I was completed, I became integrated.
There was someone who had cried for nights;
there was someone who was passionette with you; that was me.
Did I love you? I did, the greatest,
the most unfaded roses opened inside of me
you were something makes my life worth living;
you were… in my blurry youth
Did I love you? I did, just like that.
I arrived to a line with you
and one day I lost you there.
Did I love you? I did, what about you?
Longing by Aziz Nesin
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You made me wait so long, so long that
You got me used to wait for you.
Even though you came back after a long time
I now love longing for you more than I love you.
My eyes don’t see the love in your eyes.
My heart doesn’t receive the love from them.
I’ve already exhausted my soul, take it, exhaust it a little bit more.
Because I think you’re just like everybody else now.
Though last night I was waiting for you to come,
today I’m running away from you secretly.
See, I’d looked into my heart well enough,
then I understood that you’re just like everybody else.
I completely forgot you, I’m sure of it .
Now my promise belonged to the past.
I don’t even have any grudge against you in my heart.
I think you’re just like everybody else now.
I have never said ‘I love you’ to a person I have never loved;
or I’ve never expected the person I love to love me back.
I’ve never put a price on my friendship, and I’ve never put a limit on my love.
If I loved someone, I went all the way,
If I was done with anyone, even though I would miss them to death, I didn’t look back.
Sometimes I was heartbroken, and maybe sometimes I broke hearts.
But I said ‘mistakes are for people’.
I forgave, I asked for forgiveness.
Some of them broke my heart more than once but I still forgave them.
Maybe they judged me and called me ‘really naive’
Maybe they snickered insidiously.
But the thing they have forgotten was;
I wasn’t the one who was mistaken!
They were the only ones that were mistaken most of the times but they weren’t aware of it.
Since they don’t know what a loss of a person is like,
Since losing people has become normal to them,
but I have never lost a person,
I only knew how to give up when the time came..
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