"I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you everyday"
"... I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close... I will love you until your face is fogged by distant memory. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, I will love you if you don't marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else and I will love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all. That is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way."
-Lemony Snicket
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If only as a dream
Sweet dreams, I need— if I were to beseech,
Would you then heed;
Step right through the nightly
Vortex of enmity?
Would you take my oneiric hand
If I would dare hopelessly reach;
Return to me in my hour of need
As an apparition or a
Hyaline dream?
Be you the silver sparkling entity
Abolishing these whirling shadows
Whose phantasmagoria screech
Obsidian nails into the slate that has
Recorded my life's
Every deed?
Return —
As my last-ditch placebo,
As my remedy;
I am begging with my eyes closed
For your soul to glimpse, or gleam,
As some sort of
Spectral embodiment
Of
Eternal peace.
You do not have to be real, again, but,
Please, do seem;
That my heart-cries
May cease.
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14-5-2024, M.A. Tempels ©
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“You must know, surely, you must know it was all for you.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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Etch
Senseless
Sleeplessness; crooked fingers
Carve at my heart
With obsidian shards,
Etching the labyrinths wherein
I will get lost,
Again,
Trying to spell
Your name.
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22-12-2023, M.A. Tempels ©
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The Triumph of the Genius of Destruction - Mihály Zichy, 1878.
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