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    Everything, Everything I Owned.

    Everything, everything I owned
    was yours more than mine.
    Everything I most dearly wanted
    was yours, yours, yours.
    
    I told you out loud
    what no-one else in the world knew.
    On endless paths
    were you my solitude.
    
    I lay awake at night
    and thought nothing,
    breathed, I felt you, you.
    You were all around.
    
    Lifeless is life,
    when you are not there.
    The world is an immense shell,
    which has no core.


    Translated into English by Jenny Nunn in "To a friend".

    Swedish original



    Copyright © 1997:
    Translation from Swedish into English: Jenny Nunn
    Swedish original: Ulf Boye

    Published with the permission of:
    Jenny Nunn, translation.
    Ulf Boye, copyright of the Swedish original.
    May and Hans Mehlin, Layout.