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The Kiss That Has No End

After The Kiss By Gustav Klimt

Tomorrow is not here today
My love, today is our last day. Let us lay 
Together in the cool of night. For one last time 
Let us kiss this wretched pain
Away. Time has been so cruel. 
Cruel. So cruel.
Never I was meant for you, 
never you were meant for I.
and although your skin is a darker shade
I still feel what I feel inside.
My heart has lost its beat
Because he will never look at me like you. 
Nor she at you like me. If ever 
I could lie or steal, I’d tell my heart right now
Of all the ways I wouldn’t miss you, but then
I’d steal away my only life. Because to go on feeling
what I feel for you is worse than losing you like this. 
If we do this together, now
my dying breath would feel complete. But
If you leave me tomorrow, my dying breath
Would never end.

My darling, 
There are far worse things than losing
Me. My treachery must be repaid. 
How foolish to love a light skinned 
girl and think it’d be ok. Go 
On living with me in your mind, no one has to know
our truth. Your swollen belly isn’t his, but your love was 
Never mine. I wish I would have known you first, but at least
You are my last. Let me hold you close in my mother’s fleece
And kiss you without remorse. Let us lay here
Star gazing in the warmth of one another, 
I want to tell you all the secrets hiding in my mind
Let me confess to you who I am inside. and
Don’t cry for me tomorrow, when you see
My body swaying. All I ever wanted was to feel 
what I feel now
And when I leave you tomorrow, 
the kiss. 
This. kiss. 
*kiss* Is all I will Remember. 

Their moment carried on a canvas. Through brush stroked love and textured fate.
Signed with gentle passion. Forever glossed in their shiny paint.

And on that tomorrow, two lovers never lived outside their painted chance.
They stayed embracing in a yellow fleece. With “the kiss”, upon her head.

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