Hast Du mich lieb?
Do you love me?
He didn’t need the answer in word
just the way she looked
When she turned away,
or paused between sentences
long enough to feel
him still listening.
This card doesn’t shout.
It asks.
Softly, in four languages.
And waits.
Back text reads:
“Do you love me?”
Printed in German, French, Italian, and Slovak—
each one a whisper from a different corner of the heart.
Unposted. Circa 1905–1910.
Printed in Germany by Meister der Farbe, Series No. 976.
Hast Du mich lieb?
Do you love me?
He didn’t need the answer in word
just the way she looked
When she turned away,
or paused between sentences
long enough to feel
him still listening.
This card doesn’t shout.
It asks.
Softly, in four languages.
And waits.
Back text reads:
“Do you love me?”
Printed in German, French, Italian, and Slovak—
each one a whisper from a different corner of the heart.
Unposted. Circa 1905–1910.
Printed in Germany by Meister der Farbe, Series No. 976.
