"A poet told me she wouldn’t be able to translate one of the lines from my poem: “I love you in this..."

“A poet told me she wouldn’t be able to translate one of the lines from my poem: “I love you in this city”, and make it sound right. She said it wouldn’t sound sincere. I didn’t tell her, the person I wrote it for didn’t think so either. I would have tried to make it sound like a joke. She wasn’t getting my jokes. Instead she wrote one of my other lines on the wall: What else would it mean to be human if not a lost thing. I could have fell for her but I didn’t. Maybe when we say love, we mean a safe place to fall apart.”

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Jason Bayani, Kein/Muenchen

I saw this poem live for the first time last night and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. So incredible.  (via 7-weeks)