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Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines
by Pablo Neruda
Write for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in her my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless skies.
She loved me; sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great stare.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel the she's gone.
To hear immense night, still more immense than now.
And the verse falls to the sound like dew to a flower.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is shattered and she is not with me.
This is all. In the distance someone is singing.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.
The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her.
Another's. She will be another's. Like my heart.
Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I lover her.
Love is short, forgetting is so long.
Because through nights like this one I held her close.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Though this be the last pain that she makes me feel,
and these the last verses that I write for her.
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