an impossible love
“It’s an impossible love” – you say to me.
“It’s an impossible love” – I say to you.
But you find that you smile when you look at me,
and I discover that I smile when I see you.
“At night” – you confess – “I think of you... I think of you day and night, and I wonder if you’re thinking of me while I think of you.
… Society, the rules, the duties... but you tremble when I hold your hands.”
“Better to be happy or better to be aligned?”
– I ask you. –
And your smile lights up the day, changing attire with every thought of mine.
“This love is possible” – I tell you.
“This love is possible” – you tell me.

Sextus Aurelius Propertius (Roman poet born in 47 BC)

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