| Uite, îmi ascund lacrimi, ține. | See, I veil my tears—keep them close within your palm. |
| Îmi strânge în pumn, dorul meu de tine. | My longing for you, clenched tight beneath your thumb. |
| Te-a prins grăbit, rapid arzi. | You were seized in haste, you blaze—a fleeting flame. |
| Când împreuna înseamna ieri, | When together spelled yesterday, |
| Desparțiți încet azi. | We drift apart, slow as dusk dissolves the day. |
| Dar tu ai văzut doar defecte în mine. | But you saw only fault-lines mapped on my skin. |
| Nu poți schimba pe cineva, | You cannot remake a soul, |
| Dacă o faci doar pentru tine. | If you do it merely for yourself, within. |
| Tu nu ai văzut, că îndepartezi ? | Did you not sense how you retreat, withdraw? |
| O fată care vede perfectul în tine. | A woman who, in you, discerns the flawless raw. |
| O fată care, se va pierde în mulțime. | A woman lost—soon swallowed by the crowd’s gray tide. |
| Și-n locul ei, acum îți spun. | And in her silence, now my voice replies. |
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| Eu am găsit pe altcineva ca mine, imperfect. | I have found another soul, flawed as I am, incomplete. |
| Dacă minus cu minus fac plus. | If two minuses together yield relief. |
| Legea dragostei mele este defect plus defect. | The law of my love: blemish weds blemish, defect with defect. |
| Eu am găsit pe altcineva ca mine, imperfect. | I have found another soul, flawed as I am, incomplete. |
| Dacă minus cu minus fac plus. | If two minuses together yield relief. |
| Legea dragostei mele este defect plus defect. | The law of my love: blemish weds blemish, defect with defect. |
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| Uite,degetul inelar, liber, | Behold, my ring finger—bare, unburdened, free, |
| Ochii după ochelari plânși, dar sinceri. | Eyes welling behind stained lenses, yet sincere as sea-glass. |
| Colțuri de străzi, prin cap mii de gânduri. | At street corners, a thousand thoughts flicker through my head. |
| Oare e un defect că te-am citit printre rânduri. | Is it a failing to have read your meanings between each thread? |
| Dar tu îndepărtezi o fată care vede perfectul în tine. | Yet still you cast away a woman who sees your hidden best. |
| O fată care, se va pierde în multime. | A woman lost—soon swallowed by the faceless rest. |
| Și-n locul ei, acum îți spun. | And in her silence, now my voice replies. |
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| Eu am găsit pe altcineva ca mine, imperfect. | I have found another soul, flawed as I am, incomplete. |
| Dacă minus cu minus fac plus. | If two minuses together yield relief. |
| Legea dragostei mele este defect plus defect. | The law of my love: blemish weds blemish, defect with defect. |
| Eu am găsit pe altcineva ca mine, imperfect. | I have found another soul, flawed as I am, incomplete. |
| Dacă minus cu minus fac plus. | If two minuses together yield relief. |
| Legea dragostei mele este defect plus defect. | The law of my love: blemish weds blemish, defect with defect. |
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| Vorbește-mi, minte-mă dacă mai poți. | Speak—deceive me if yet you still possess that art. |
| Ea-i purtătoare de arme albe. | She bears white weapons hidden at her heart. |
| Noi transformați în hoți. | We, transformed into thieves beneath the night’s profound arrest. |
| Și hotare între noi, ce nu se deschid. | And boundaries between us—locked, unyielding, unexpressed. |
| Am văzut prea mult noroi. | I have seen too much mire, too much earth’s embrace. |
| Dar tu pretinzi că știi, | But you pretend to know, |
| Că tu ma știi. | That you know me— |
| Sunt presiuni din trecut. | Pressures of memory press from the past. |
| Noi nu suntem perfecți dar nu suntem: | We are not perfect, but we are not: |
| "Vii" (vii). | "Alive" (alive). |
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| Eu am găsit pe altcineva ca mine, imperfect. | I have found another soul, flawed as I am, incomplete. |
| Dacă minus cu minus fac plus. | If two minuses together yield relief. |
| Legea dragostei mele este defect plus defect. | The law of my love: blemish weds blemish, defect with defect. |
| Eu am găsit pe altcineva ca mine, imperfect. | I have found another soul, flawed as I am, incomplete. |
| Dacă minus cu minus fac plus. | If two minuses together yield relief. |
| Legea dragostei mele este defect plus defect. | The law of my love: blemish weds blemish, defect with defect. |