On the one hand I love you like no other
Like no one before, but then there’s contradiction:
That on the other, I hate you like no other.

Yes, you are the one who puts my soul on fire
With tender desire. Oh God, such a sensation!
So on the one hand I love you like no other.

But then I never fail to forget, however,
How your mind excludes me in cold calculation.
So on the other, I hate you like no other.

Yes, you are the one who makes my heart beat faster
Filling my inner space with wonderous vision.
So on the one hand I love you like no other.

But then it seems I recall (or does it matter?)
How you do ridicule my heartfelt emotion.
So on the other, I hate you like no other.

Is it possible for you to undo this hurt?
What's in me, inside, that won't die or abandon…
That on the one hand I love you like no other
But on the other, I hate you like no other.

12/26/2005

Ronberge (closed account)

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