Mircea Cartarescu–When you need love

I like this one because… who hasn’t felt like this every once in a while? There are no linguistic treasons there, the text is deliberately simple, almost primal in its raw emotion, barred of any artifice.

CAND AI NEVOIE DE DRAGOSTE
de Mircea Cartarescu

când ai nevoie de dragoste nu ti se da dragoste.
când trebuie sa iubesti nu esti iubit.
când esti singur nu poti sa scapi de singuratate.
când esti nefericit nu are sens sa o spui.

când vrei sa strangi în brate nu ai pe cine.
când vrei sa dai un telefon sunt toti plecati.
când esti la pamânt cine se intereseaza de tine?
cui îi pasa? cui o sa-i pese vreodata?

fii tu lânga mine, gândeste-te la mine.
poarta-te tandru cu mine, nu ma chinui, nu ma face gelos,
nu ma parasi, caci n-as mai suporta înca o ruptura.
fii lânga mine, tine cu mine.

întelege-ma iubeste-ma, nu-mi trebuie partuze, nici conversatie,
fii iubita mea permanenta.
hai sa uitam regula jocului, sa nu mai stim ca sexul e o jungla.
sa ne atasam, sa ajungem la echilibru.

dar nu sper nimic. nu primesti dragoste
când ai nevoie de dragoste.
când trebuie sa iubesti nu esti iubit.
când esti la pamânt nici o femeie nu te cunoaste.

WHEN YOU NEED LOVE
By Mircea Cartarescu

when you need love nobody gives you love
when you need to love you are not loved in return.
when you are alone you can’t escape loneliness.
when you are unhappy there’s no reason to say it.

when you want to hold someone, there’s no one to hold.
when you want to make a phone call, everybody’s out.
when you are down on your knees, who asks about you?
who cares? who will ever care?

please stand by me, think of me
treat me gently, don’t torture me, don’t make me jealous,
don’t leave me, for I wouldn’t stand another break-up
stand by my side, root for me.

understand me, love me, I don’t need orgies, I don’t need conversation, either,
be my constant lover.
let’s forget the rule of the game, forget that sex is a jungle.
let’s get attached to one another, let’s reach equilibrium.

but I hope for nothing. you don’t get love
when you need love.
when you need to love, you are not loved in return.
when you are down on your knees, no woman knows you.

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