When We Were Married

                   after Rene Magritte's The Lovers II

​Artist:  René Magritte
b. November 21, 1898, Lessines, Belgium; d. August 15, 1967, Brussels, Belgium
Title:  The Lovers II
Date: 1928
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When I watch you     mouth    thickened with autumn 
I cannot find the words   or   the parts of myself    that were there
when we walked into this room   sweet man   this place is no more
our home   this day has   ripened in our farewells    and we are no
longer the kiss    before the day    we lived    to reinvent   I have been  
indifferent towards this   unseeing   but today I will not
live in this hunger   any longer   I will not stifle   my dreams     or
deport another vision   to the idea   that you will catch up   sweet man
I acknowledge your honesty about what   eludes you     and   how much 
you want it back    you want me   but   I am so   unsure
about men in love    with me   or anything else     I need  
to see     to watch    to open    my eyes   in a room
that will   finally    have
me