"they loved each other, but neither

would admit to the other they could:

as enemies, they saw each other,

and almost died of their love.


in the end they parted and only

saw each other sometimes in dreams:

it was long ago they had died,

but they scarcely knew it, it seems."

- heinrich heine

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  • anonymous lover
one year ago

Cool poetry

I don't know why but I picture this as a love between a person of the same sex that could never be

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