Jolanta Gradowicz Poems

Keep me in your mind. Remember me.
Don’t erase those wonderful whiles.
Just don’t forget me so easily,
Try to recall the old, lovely times…
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I want you to feed me with lies.
I don’t want to wake up to know
The only Truth – I am not wise,
I lost my prudence years ago…
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It will come some day or night,
And stop all clocks in your room
Even if you don’t invite
The last second to come soon.
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Ladies and gentlemen from the city!
I have a special proposal for you.
You mustn’t miss the opportunity -
Today I am selling dreams that come true!
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Follow me today and ever.
Keep to my rules and ways.
Don’t let me ask you. Be clever!
I’ll offer you the happiest days...
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Thank you for your being
Close to me every day,
For the joy and smile you bring -
It’s everything I can say…
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If I didn’t manage to say it to you
Or if I didn’t have any chance to do it,
Know that my love was great, and crazy, and true
Though the truth may disconcert you a bit…
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I remain silent though my heart is weeping.
I exist - impassively and automatically.
I’m a machine – indifferent, hardly functioning.
Yet I breathe. It can’t be true. It can’t be possible.
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I don’t know what I’m waiting for.
It's difficult to name the longing.
I have it at heart - it's my sorrow,
It's my pain - piercing and burning.
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I can’t extinguish the fire in my heart.
Its flames reach the deepest corners of my mind.
It burns every thought and makes me deaf and blind,
It spreads with wild intensity – it’s so smart…
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