Impossible Loves II (Pre-Romance)

To jump, you must not be falling;
    yet in love,
    to jump is to fall into it.
Then, what is an abyss, love?
    To learn the lips of the abyss,
    where the fall must be a guess
        without vertigo or doubt;
    knowing that part of writing
        —as a phenomenon—
    is not to accept the abyss:
        no end of time,
        no path,
        no fall at all;
    and yet,
        you throw yourself into it,
        as if they all wished to exist.
What is a legend, love?
    Flowers beyond,
    far beyond the limits of writing.
Does that abyss need to exist?
    You can throw someone’s lips
        into the fall,
        only to recognize the lips,
        but you can’t throw her heart
            —heart that echoes yours.
May the abyss of a love story
    be a legend—
        there, time deepens its depth,
        and distance deepens the soul.
        If we don’t need reasons,
        why do we still look for them?
            If we are two abysses,
            two hearts,
            two lips,
            always two ‘you and me’s,
                searching for the meaning of this poem
                and writing the next to come
    —love.

This poem is a continuation of...

What if seduction were not
the desire to seduce,
and that’s the reason
we fall?
A tango taking place
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