I have loved you...

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part I.

In another time, I may have been your late night
confessionary, a Parisian whore to your
gentle hands and overwhelming needs. I could see us
touching, desperately
touching –
                    loving each other without knowing names.
We are at times both romantic enough, and tragic
enough, for that.

And if I was not full of sin enough
to beckon your fingers to my skin, perhaps I
was only a girl you met for
un café au lait. You laid
your hand over mine beneath autumnal arbres, and we
made small talk about the world. Perhaps;

we are masters at making love with strangers. And you
and I –
                    peu importe. Je sais que je t'ai touché, d’une
                    manière ou d'une autre.