Neruda, Pablo

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I don't know, I don't know where</div> <div> it came from, from winter or a river.</div> <div> I don't know how or when,</div> <div> no, they were not voices, they were not</div> <div> words, nor silence,</div> <div> but from a street I was summoned,</div> <div> from the branches of night,</div> <div> abruptly from the others,</div> <div> among violent fires</div> <div> or returning alone,</div> <div> there I was without a face</div> <div> and it touched me. </div> <div> I did not know what to say, my mouth</div> <div> had no way</div> <div> with names</div> <div> my eyes were blind,</div> <div> and something started in my soul,</div> <div> fever or forgotten wings,</div> <div> and I made my own way,</div> <div> deciphering</div> <div> that fire</div> <div> and I wrote the first faint line,</div> <div> faint, without substance, pure</div> <div> nonsense,</div> <div> pure wisdom</div> <div> of someone who knows nothing,</div> <div> and suddenly I saw</div> <div> the heavens</div> <div> unfastened</div> <div> and open,</div> <div> planets,</div> <div> palpitating planations,</div> <div> shadow perforated,</div> <div> riddled</div> <div> with arrows, fire and flowers,</div> <div> the winding night, the universe. </div> <div> And I, infinitesmal being,</div> <div> drunk with the great starry</div> <div> void,</div> <div> likeness, image of</div> <div> mystery,</div> <div> I felt myself a pure part</div> <div> of the abyss,</div> <div> I wheeled with the stars,</div> <div> my heart broke free on the open sky.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="xx_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>XX</B><B> </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Tonight I can write the saddest lines.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Write for example, 'The night is shattered</B></div> <div> <B>and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Tonight I can write the saddest lines.</B></div> <div> <B>I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.</B></div> <div> <B>I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.</B></div> <div> <B>How could one not have loved her great still eyes.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Tonight I can write the saddest lines.</B></div> <div> <B>To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>To hear immense night, still more immense without her.</B></div> <div> <B>And the verse falls to the soul like dew to a pasture.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>What does it matter that my love could not keep her.</B></div> <div> <B>The night is shattered and she is not with me.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.</B></div> <div> <B>My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>My sight searches for her as though to go to her.</B></div> <div> <B>My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>The same night whitening the same trees.</B></div> <div> <B>We, of that time, are no longer the same.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.</B></div> <div> <B>My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.</B></div> <div> <B>Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.</B></div> <div> <B>Love is short, forgetting is so long.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms</B></div> <div> <B>my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer</B></div> <div> <B>and these the last verses that I write for her.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dies slowly he who transforms himself into a slave of habit,</B></div> <div> <B>repeating every day the same routines,</B></div> <div> <B>who does not change brands,</B></div> <div> <B>does not risk wearing a new color, nor talking to those he doesn't know.</B></div> <div> <B>Dies slowly he who makes television his guru.</B></div> <div> <B>Dies slowly he who avoids a passion,</B></div> <div> <B>who prefers black to white</B></div> <div> <B>and the dots on the "i" to a whirlpool of emotions,</B></div> <div> <B>Dies slowly he who does not overthrow the table when unhappy at work,</B></div> <div> <B>who does not risk the certain for the uncertain</B></div> <div> <B>to go toward the dream that is keeping him awake.</B></div> <div> <B>Who does not, at least once in life, flee from sound thinking.</B></div> <div> <B>Dies slowly he who does not travel, does not read,</B></div> <div> <B>does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself.</B></div> <div> <B>Dies slowly he who destroys his self love,</B></div> <div> <B>who does not accept help from another.</B></div> <div> <B>Dies slowly he who passes his days complaining of his bad luck or the incessant rain.</B></div> <div> <B>Dies slowly he who abandons a project before starting it,</B></div> <div> <B>who does not ask about a subject he does not know</B></div> <div> <B>or who does not answer when being asked about something he does know.</B></div> <div> <B>Dies slowly he who does not share his emotions, joys and sadness,</B></div> <div> <B>who does not trust, who does not even try.</B></div> <div> <B>Dies slowly he who does not intend excelling,</B></div> <div> <B>who does not learn from the stones on the road of life,</B></div> <div> <B>who does not love and let somebody love him.</B></div> <div> <B>Let's avoid death in soft quotes,</B></div> <div> <B>remembering always that to be alive demands an effort much bigger</B></div> <div> <B>that the simple fact of breathing.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0aff8350.png" border=0 width="248" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>