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When you need Love

when you need love you are not given love.
when you need to love you are not loved.
when you are alone you cannot escape your loneliness.
when you are unhappy there is no point in saying it.

when you want to embrace you have no one to 
when you want to make a call everyone is away
when you are down who takes an interest in you?
who cares? who will ever care?

be near me, think of me.
be tender with me, do not torment me, do not make me  jealous
do not leave me, I could not bear another split
be with me, root for me.

understand me love me, I need no orgies, nor conversations
be my permanent lover.
let’s forget the rule of the game, let’s not know anymore that sex is a jungle ,
let’s  attach, let’s reach the equilibrium

but I hope for nothing, you won’t receive love
when you need love.
when you need to love you are not loved
when you are down no woman knows you anymore



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  • Home
  • Poetry
    • Days of Red
    • A Veteran
    • Why are they laughing
    • A drink with Tom about old masters and young mistresses
    • Antwerp Scene
    • Suddenly, early
    • Metonymy
    • The Sauntering Step
    • On Second Thought
    • Listening to November
    • Apprenticeship
  • Poetry in Translation
    • Nichita Stanescu >
      • To bend light
      • Song
      • Old song for new moon
      • Sad Love Song
      • Love, young lioness
      • *** (to Laura)
      • Through the orange tunnel
    • Mircea Cartarescu >
      • When You Need Love
      • The Collision
      • Adieu! In Buharest
      • The West
  • Articles
  • Biography
  • Contact