My Pain Is at the Heart of My Life, Poem by Auguste Angellier

Poem by Auguste Angellier Collection To the Lost FriendThemes LovePeriod 19th century

Just as my pain is at the heart of my life,
Your pain, beloved, is at the heart of mine;
And, as my sorrow bleeds deep within myself,
Deep within my sorrow your thought still bleeds.

When my grief seems satisfied with suffering,
Within it is born another anguish, more distant,
Of which it is only a faint echo, a pale emblem,
As it is itself portrayed in these verses.

But this anguish is too deep for words,
It lies beyond the deepest sobs,
In the dark abysses of my being, sunk,

And drowned in my blood that carries it in its waves:
And the pain of my pain, O beloved,
Must forever remain unexpressed in me.

Auguste Angellier

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