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Tomasz Jedrowski

Swimming in the Dark

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    Because you were right when you said that people can’t always give us what we want from them; that you can’t ask them to love you the way you want.
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    “Waiting for nothing, queuing for a possibility, that’s what we’re all doing now,”
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    gray-blue eyes the same color as the Baltic Sea in winter.
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    we had no manual, no one to show us the way. Not one example of a happy couple made up of boys. How were we supposed to know what to do? Did we even believe that we deserved to get away with happiness?
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    And I cried, despite myself. All this time I’d meant to ask you whether you loved her. It was the one thing that I regretted not asking. I realize now that it never mattered. Because you were right when you said that people can’t always give us what we want from them; that you can’t ask them to love you the way you want.
  • luluhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    You two walked off, arm in arm, and I watched you, the burning cigarette still in my hand, the last thing you’d ever given me.
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    You looked at me for a reaction. This has never been a game, I thought, and never innocent either. But I couldn’t bring myself to say it. It seemed as if we’d entered a realm where words had lost their meaning. I just looked at you, saw you struggle, harden again at my silence.
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    Our bodies formed one, protecting each other from the cold, perfect in the night. We kissed. You were mine. I realized then that this was the only thing that counted. Nothing else had ever existed. Just our lips and hips and sighs.
  • luluhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    I saw you sitting near me, and all I felt was love. I closed my eyes and saw fields, and flowers, and the lake, the lake from that summer, and everything was there for me, only for me, and I loved myself—all of it, every atom—like I never had before.
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