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Chapter 107

Chapter 6, Section 11 Ode to the Lover

[Germany] Brecht
I know, my love, that the emptiness of life has made my hair fall out, and I have to lie still on the headstone.You see me drinking the cheapest brandy, and I'm walking on the wind.

There was a time, love, when I was pure and innocent.

I had a wife once, and she was stronger than me as the grass is stronger than the bull today, and now the grass is alive again.

At that time, she was angry when she saw me, but she still loved me unswervingly.

She didn't ask where her road was going, maybe it would go downhill.When she promised me with her body, she once said: This is everything.And it all became my body.

Today, there is no trace of her anymore, she is like a floating cloud.Whenever it rains, I can only let the floating clouds go down freely, because this is its journey.

Whenever I drink at night, I often see her pale face in the wind; the strong wind blows towards me, and I bow deeply to the wind.

【Together with you】

"When you meet the person you want to meet among thousands of people, during thousands of years, in the wilderness with no limit to time, neither one step too early nor one step too late, just in time..."

yes!Who has reason not to cherish this once-in-a-lifetime love, not to cherish your lover?

Don't wait until you lose your lover to reminisce about the beauty of the past. From now on, treat your lover well and let her feel that you love her as before.

Love neither possesses nor is possessed; love neither deprives nor is deprived.

Love is fulfilled in love.

(End of this chapter)