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  "id": "texto-cuanto-hace-ya",
  "language": "en",
  "canonical": "https://paynalton.tech/en/works/cuanto-hace-ya/",
  "title": "How long has it been?",
  "summary": "Questions and repetitions organize the mourning for an absence.",
  "author": "Paynalton",
  "format": "poetry",
  "year": 2010,
  "source": "https://misotrosrelatos.blogspot.com/2010/02/cuanto-hace-ya.html",
  "partial": false,
  "topics": [
    {
      "title": "Poetry and poetic prose",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-categoria-poesia/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Poetry",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-poesia/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Poem",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-poema/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Unlove",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-desamor/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Absence",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-ausencia/"
    }
  ],
  "body": "How long has it been since your lips no longer rest on mine?<br>How long has it been since your eyes no longer rest on me?<br>How long has it been since your voice no longer says my name?<br>How long has it been since you no longer have me in your future?<br><br>I look out the window and the reflection returns your face, I look at the horizon and I can't see you. Next to me, the cold air invades the place that was rightfully yours and in my dreams, the most important part is always missing: You.<br><br>How long has it been since I last saw you?<br>How long has it been since with tears in my eyes you said goodbye to me?<br>How long has it been since the phone doesn't ring with your voice?<br>How long has it been since I wake up thinking you won't come back?<br><br>I walk through the empty streets that fill with strangers and none of them are you. I travel to the edges of thought searching for a word, a verse, a song that brings you back to me and I can't find it. I long for the past when my dreams were flooded with your presence and all my hopes were summed up in seeing you smile.<br><br>How long has it been since I don't travel kilometers just to see you?<br>How long has it been since we don't lie to the world just to spend a night together?<br>How long has it been since my soul doesn't feel the happiness of your smile?<br>How long has it been since your love isn't for me?<br><br>I lift my face to the sky and I can't hold back the tears. I close my hand and I get angry because between my fingers aren't yours. I lose myself in madness, I laugh, I think, I cry, I scream and there's nothing that's really worth it.<br><br>You have left forever and I can't make you come back. I have lost, I have lost everything I desired and longed for... I have lost you.<br><br>\n\n<div>\n\n\n\n</div>\n"
}