If You Forget Me - Pablo Neruda

If You Forget Me - by Pablo Neruda is such a passionate love poem.
This poem pulls at the heart. It is lyrical as all "feels" well between Neruda and his love at the end.
There is geography and intense freedom in the piece.
Passion, fervor and candour of emotion direct Neruda's words into quintessential beauty.

Pablo Neruda
1914-1973

Injoy - Cat
2023

Transcript

If you forget me, I want you to know one thing. You know how this is. If I look at the crystal moon at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, If I touch near the fire the impalpable ash of the wrinkled body of the log, Everything carries me to you. As if everything that exists, Aromas, Lights, Metals, Or little boats that sail towards those isles of yours that wait for me, Well now, If little by little you stop loving me, I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me, Do not look for me, For I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad, The wind of banners that passes through my life, And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, Remember that on that day, At that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land. But if each day, Each hour, You feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, If each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, I'll smile my love on my own. In me, All that fire is repeated. In me, Something, Nothing is extinguished or forgotten. My love feeds on your love, Beloved, And as long as you live, It will be in your arms without leaving mine.

Reviews

Beautiful poem with profound words of wisdom. Thank you, Catherine - Much love always 🙏🏻

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