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and love seemed to rest, on us, in a place where, for that hour, it felt death could not reach, and someone was singing in my hearing, withoutwords, that no one can live without reachingdeath, but I could have lived without havingloved almost without reserve, and for amoment, then, I thought I lived forever with him.
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And slowly he starts to seem more far away, he seems to waft, driftat a distance
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If I couldchoose, a place to die,”it would never have been in your arms, old darling,we figured I'd see you out, in mine
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That moved me so much about you,the way you were a dumbstruck oneand yet you seemed to know everythingI did not know
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I think he loved being loved
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We have always been going back, since birth, back toward not being alive.
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But if feels as if he's not here—though he's here, it feels as if, for me, there's no one there
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Now I see I've been hoping, each time we meet, that he would praise me for how well I took it, but it's not to be.
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and for an instant he's alive toward me, a gem of sea ofpond in his eye. Then that retreat into himself,which always moved me, as if there werea sideways gravity, in him, toward somevanishing point.
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