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# Always Have Paris
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/always-have-paris/
- Published: 2023-01-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Well, let’s talk Paris if you think we must. Our moonwalks up and down Champs-Élysées Was any of it more than wanton lust, a textbook love affair, a sad cliché? The promises, the lies, oh, but we knew! We knew, but le...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Well, let’s talk Paris if you think we must.  
Our moonwalks up and down Champs-Élysées  
Was any of it more than wanton lust,  
a textbook love affair, a sad cliché?  
The promises, the lies, oh, but we knew!  
We knew, but let the city have its way,  
and so, the days we had, too few, too few,  
would not allow for truth. We had to say:  
“I love you”, “I will leave her”, “I’ll come back”.  
“I’ll always”, “I’ll remember”, “I'll be free”.  
Our hearts, as if they’ve always had the knack,  
pretended not to hear and not to see.  
Alone now, in the early winter chill...  
And Paris? Never had it, never will.