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Don't promise!

 

Don't promise me a paradise!

 

Don't promise!

 

Don't tempt by crazy dreams!

 

Please, don't!

 

Don't tell me you will miss!

 

Just give a farewell kiss.

 

Forget about tomorrow!

 

It doesn't exist.

 

Forget about yesterday!

 

It's brought a sorrow.

 

You still persist?

 

We are guilty without a sin.

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a pilgrimage to L'Oréal





Part One – anticipation

She lives in no17 and Max factor
Takes a man
To be lovers lips
The sugared slipping of gloss leaps
And he must taste
Fresh lilacs second skin
Like Lycra fits hips unforgiving in allure
so curves open like a chord
The inner, the outer, the living
The puckered pout is pure
A suckered siren breathes out
gasping moment thanksgiving
Se...

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Don't tell me farewell!

 

Don’t tell me farewell!

How much more I would love to tell.

I remember how we have met.

Those days I will never forget.

Don’t tell me farewell!

Without you I can’t find a place to dwell.

I remember how we have met by chance.

You looked at me with such a charming glance.

Don’t tell me farewell!

I don’t believe you are the one to swell.

Some things I ...

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Love

 

Love doesn’t live with a doubt.

If it can’t speak out loud

it looses it’s voice,

it can’t rejoice,

it can hear only noise.

Love doesn’t live with fears.

When fear appears love disappears.

When separated it suffers

and turns into the duffer.

Love doesn’t live without trust,

it will never last.

Without trust it looks ugly,

blackly, badly and m...

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