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Imperfect Tango

by @Agnes-de-Lodz

I won’t go on a wild trip with you, I won’t dance pressed close in the velvet night, We won’t argue over metaphors. Our life is a prose of the genre. Order, paid bills, bravely divided into fractions. Locked rooms, forgotten laughter, and silence that sometimes screams. A colorful mosaic, a tragicomedy, By others called an immature farce. We danced, awkwardly, our tango, Trying to tame ourselves. And yet I longed for the warmth of arms When you slipped away, the Erinyes awoke. We were imperfect Love, A set of empty expectations. Buying me new notebooks and pencils, You erased what hadn’t worked for us. Oh irony, going blind, I see more! Time spares us not, my dear! I saw that the bags were heavier, I begged you to stay a little longer, To celebrate our embittered certainty. Looking back, I see an empty hall. Yes, you gave me silence and my own room, The one I dreamed of for so long. I don’t dance anymore, no longer sing, I only write to preserve the memories, To dissolve the loneliness broken into hours, I write the meaning of hours brushed by, I still write of us at times, Though we faded into the completed past.
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Agnes-de-Lodz
48 / F / Poland
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Written by
Agnes-de-Lodz
48 / F / Poland
Published
Oct 9, 2025
Time
2m
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#presence#tango
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