Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out. <br />Summers in your absence are as dark as a room. <br />I have closed my arms again. They must do without. <br />To knock at my heart is like knocking at a tomb. <br /> Do not write! <br /> <br />Do not write. Let us learn to die, as best we may. <br />Did I love you? Ask God. Ask yourself. Do you know? <br />To hear that you love me, when you are far away, <br />Is like hearing from heaven and never to go. <br /> Do not write! <br /> <br />Do not write. I fear you. I fear to remember, <br />For memory holds the voice I have often heard. <br />To the one who cannot drink, do not show water, <br />The beloved one's picture in the handwritten word. <br /> Do not write! <br /> <br />Do not write those gentle words that I dare not see, <br />It seems that your voice is spreading them on my heart, <br />Across your smile, on fire, they appear to me, <br />It seems that a kiss is printing them on my heart. <br /> Do not write!<br /><br />Marceline Desbordes-Valmore<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/apart-les-s-par-s/
