Love Poems (New Directions Paperbook) by Neruda Pablo

Author:Neruda, Pablo [Neruda, Pablo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780811221481
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2008-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

III

My wild girl, we have had

to regain time

and march backward, in the distance

of our lives, kiss after kiss,

gathering from one place what we gave

without joy, discovering in another

the secret road

that gradually brought your feet close to mine,

and so beneath my mouth

you see again the unfulfilled plant

of your life putting out its roots

toward my heart that was waiting for you.

And one by one the nights

between our separated cities

are joined to the night that unites us.

The light of each day,

its flame or its repose,

they deliver to us, taking them from time,

and so our treasure

is disinterred in shadow or light,

and so our kisses kiss life:

all love is enclosed in our love:

all thirst ends in our embrace.

Here we are at last face to face,

we have met,

we have lost nothing.

We have felt each other lip to lip,

we have changed a thousand times

between us death and life,

all that we were bringing

like dead medals

we threw to the bottom of the sea,

all that we learned

was of no use to us:

we begin again,

we end again

death and life.

And here we survive,

pure, with the purity that we created,

broader than the earth that could not lead us

astray

eternal as the fire that will burn

as long as life endures

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