16.12.2020
Do you remember our (last) rendez-vous?
1Do you remember our last rendez-vous2?
In an empty bar someone was playing a sad tango.
I was looking into your eyes with fear, holding my breath,
sensing the sentence3 that would take you away from me forever.
While the melody went on, you uttered a few short words:
'This is the end, I must be going, farewell'.
Do you remember our last rendez-vous,
the sad finale of the most beautiful of my past dreams?
Do you remember our last rendez-vous,
the sad finale of the most beautiful of my past dreams?
- 1. On various websites, the title in some cases includes the word „ostatnie” ('last'), sometimes not. I’m not sure which version is the official one.
- 2. French for 'a date' (a romantic meeting).
- 3. Here meaning a verdict, a judgment or a decision, but also being a kind of a word play (absent in the Polish original) on the 'few short words' she says in the next stanza.