There had approached the chair to the hotel window, to look at the rain.
It was a kind of dream or trance: I was in love and at the same time didn't want anything.
It seemed unnecessary to touch you, also to see you again. I only wanted this: the room, the chair, the sound of the rain that fell hour after hour, in that warm spring night.
I didn't need anything more, I was totally satisfied. My heart had shrunk, it filled up with very little. I watched the rain fall in thick layers over the dark city:
It wasn't your business, I could have let you live what was necessary.
When it was already morning, it started raining less. I put myself to doing things that are done in full daylight, I absolved myself of guilt and burden, but I was walking around like a somnambulist.
It was reaching for this, and I had nothing to do with you anymore. A couple of days in an unknown city. A conversation, the touch of a hand. And then I took off my wedding ring.
That was what I needed: being naked.
It was a kind of dream or trance: I was in love and at the same time didn't want anything.
It seemed unnecessary to touch you, also to see you again. I only wanted this: the room, the chair, the sound of the rain that fell hour after hour, in that warm spring night.
I didn't need anything more, I was totally satisfied. My heart had shrunk, it filled up with very little. I watched the rain fall in thick layers over the dark city:
It wasn't your business, I could have let you live what was necessary.
When it was already morning, it started raining less. I put myself to doing things that are done in full daylight, I absolved myself of guilt and burden, but I was walking around like a somnambulist.
It was reaching for this, and I had nothing to do with you anymore. A couple of days in an unknown city. A conversation, the touch of a hand. And then I took off my wedding ring.
That was what I needed: being naked.
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