Tea

The tea is steaming sadly on the table,

Cutlery presses on a tissue,

I have no need for two spoons,

God, the supper of lonely people.

I taste in sweet moments of wakefulness

The night charmed to the walls,

The phone rings in the empty house,

‘I am sorry madam, it is a mistake.’

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I propose an urgent treatment

And please trust in me

When there is no other medicine

Take loneliness as a drug.

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How dear you are to me,

You’re the dearest of them all,

Tear in the eye between waters,

My own shadow does not fit,

You, my pure, white loneliness

Everything starts with once upon a time.

Your pain does me well,

I don’t know what I would do without you.

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I propose an urgent treatment

And please trust in me

When there is no other medicine

Take loneliness as a drug.

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I bear everything with sorrow,

But you are still far lovelier,

I need you so much so that

I would not give you up for any rendezvous.

Only this saddens me,

The isolation of late suppers.

At least at one of them,

God should come and have some tea with me.

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I propose an urgent treatment

And please trust in me

When there is no other medicine

Take loneliness as a drug.