THE CREST OF CAMILLE

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JOURNAL #6

I want you to remember me forever as I am right now

not how I will likely be tomorrow

if only this moment you will concede to allow

you could give yourself a chance to remember my love

without pity or sorrow

an unlikely linking of happiness and horror

you would be quick to verbalize and argue

even though I've forced your hand to admit as of now

we are done with and through

it would be pointless to banter with such love filled

and hate less hearts on the rising issue

but I hold no other option to guide me into what it is

I should or should not do

I've made my decision so now

please leave me before my brittle life finds

the death it needs to make me leave you............

( written Jan17,1992 pm)








Author's Notes/Comments: 

Inspired by the old Greta Garbo movie Camille where she dies in the end but doesn't want her lover to know she is sick. She wants him to remember her when she was healthy and in love. Is very sad but very inspiring for a poet to watch.

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