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Incognito
- My affliction is a lack
- of pretext: I need to see
- my lady where she lives.
- I haven't been in ages –
- but still I keep my distance:
- none can know my lover's name.
- I'm too afraid for a meeting,
- they'll realize who I'm with.
- Her absence is like death,
- albeit longer-lived –
- but still I keep my distance:
- none can know my lover's name.
- Lacking in excuses,
- I don't know what comes next.
- Dying would be better
- than another day of this –
- but still, I keep my distance:
- none can know my lover's name.
[English version by Adam Mahler]
