Parisian Lifestyle & Love…
When… young…
Rummaging through much loved books… in an old musty library… I touched on a novel which fascinated me…
It was… “The Sheik”…
Not only did I read the book voraciously… I also watched the film starring… the incomparable “Rudolph Valentino” and Agnes Ayres…
Both left an indelible impression on me…
The novel is about a young British aristocrat… a Lady Diana Mayo… who is kidnapped by a dashing Sheik…
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He… was…
Tall…
Handsome…
My eyes… from under my hat… happened to notice his appreciative look…
His gaze was not… without humour… “un regard amusé”… engaging me to reciprocate in a… “moment”… while travelling on the Métro heading to Saint-Germain-des-Prés…
Magnetic blue eyes… flirting with the idea of two strangers on a train…
My heart… skipped a beat…
Exciting… thrilling…
Enticing…
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I’m… in a constant
State of… missing… missing…
Missing… Him.
I can’t… think
I can’t… work
I can’t… function…
It’s just a never-ending… state of being.
An… infrastructure
Of… numbness
A state of… thinking of him…
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Our… silent…
Love…
Enchanting…
Haunting…
That…
Doesn’t… fade…
Never… not…
A… moment…
Think… live…
Breath…
Togetherness…
At… dawn…
As… the sun rises…
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Will… I…
Be… seeing you…
In… every…
Small… café…
In… every…
Quartier…
This… New year…
In the… Marais…
Montmartre… St. Germain-des-Prés…
I’ll be… seeing you…
In every… passing cloud…
The sun… as it rises…
Over… roof tops…
“A… Paris”…
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The… very…
Thought…
The… mere…
Idea…
You… inspire…
Makes… me…
Desire…
Your… presence…
“Votre… essence…”
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Anguished… emotions…
Turbulent…
Dazed…
A crescendo… reaching… screeching…
Powerful… classic “oeuvre”…
Conducted…
Troubled… confused…
Rock-bottom… depression…
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For… a brief…
Interlude…
Coco Chanel… and…
Igor Stravinsky…
Had an… affair…
It was… 1920…
A dangerous… liaison…
Stravinsky… was a married man…
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A… shade…
Of… sadness…
Follows… me…
Nights… days…
How… lonely…
Is… life…
Without… you…
Your… shadow…
Follows me… haunts me…
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