Chapter 16 I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair

DONT GO FAR OFF, NOT EVEN FOR A DAY Don't go far off, not even for a day, because -- because -- I dont know how to say it: a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station When the trains are parked off somewhere else, sleep. Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart. Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,

because in that moment you'll have gone so far Ill wander mazily over all the earth, asking, Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?