[I like to think that when lovers say…]

Translated By Farid Matuk
I like to think that when lovers say they’ll love forever
That really their love does last forever
And even when they’ve separated
And they sometimes hate each other
And they eventually forget one another
And they one day miss each other
They’ll want to go back but can’t
Find their love because it’s
Cryogenically frozen in a dedicated chamber of the heart forever held in ideal conditions just beyond us
Which is for the best if you think of all
We’ve destroyed
As a species
 

Copyright Credit: Tilsa Otta, "[I like to think that when lovers say…]" from The Hormone Of Darkness: A Playlist, trans. by Farid Matuk. Copyright © 2024 by Farid Matuk.  Reprinted by permission of Graywolf Press, www.graywolfpress.org.
Source: The Hormone Of Darkness: A Playlist (Graywolf Press, 2024)