“When You Stay Alone” is a collection of poetry by the author Zera Princ that speaks of love, loss, life, people and the world around us – of what brings us together, separates us, hurts us, ennobles us and changes us.
In this section, you can read all the poems from the collection.
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A Dream of the Past

The sky was strewn with stars,
love and peace reigned in my soul,
your head was in my arms,
my hand in your hair,
and my gaze was lost in your beauty.

You were the embodiment of what I longed for,
the dream of all my youth,
and you were in my arms,
my happiness, my love and my whole world,
that warm July starry night,
when you kissed me for the first time.

Into that moment, eternity fit,
in that kiss all the love of the universe,
your name was engraved in my heart,
as the brand of a slave to your love.

And now, whenever I look at the sky
and its harem of shining stars,
through the doors of the past and dreamed dreams,
from my heart, like an intruder, your name appears,
to remind me that I once had a dream beside me,
that is now just a part of the past.

Zera Princ