Poetry Meditations

Stelpan sem þú elskaðir (The Girl You Loved) by Einar Már Guðmundsson


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Revolution is like the girl you once loved.

You thought she loved you too

and you would never love any other.

But one day she ditched you.

Your sorry was an abyss in the void of days.

Now, much later, you see there was nothing to her

and are astonished you should ever

have fallen in love with her.


And yet, if the magnetism that attracted you to her

is no longer in your heart...

for the girl you loved once

is not the girl you loved

but rather the yearning,

the quest that set off with you

not to find,

but to search for what you lost

to be able to lose what you found.

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