Whenever I say 'good bye', for more or less "good", I always, for some reason, come back to these Tsvetaeva lyrics. I discovered them in college, and all with the exception of the cigarette smoke, seem to fit me: simple and deep. I hope people remember these about me, one day, amongst other things ...
"One day, pretty creature"
"One day, pretty creature,
I'll become a memory for you,
There, in your deep memory,
Lost -- so far far away.
You'll forget my hook nosed profile,
And my forehead in the tempest of a cigarette,
And my eternal laughter, annoying you, --
And on my working hand, a hundred
silver rings, -- an attic-cabin,
Of my heavenly confusion of papers
Frightening year, reasoned by the sorrow,
You -- were small, I -- was young."
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