“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 Secret Love

You're a well-known beauty
everyone wants you,
but no one knows
that you are mine.

We meet in secret
so that no one catches on
that your mother will
call mine her son-in-law’s mother.

Our dear parents
do not yet know
that I will call you
my beloved wife.

Our love is a secret,
the greatest in the village,
they’ll find out when they see
the white wedding dress.

Zera Princ