Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
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 my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
To hear immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to a pasture.
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. In the distance.
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 hearing.
Another’s. She will be another’s. Like my kisses before.
Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.
I no longer love her, that’s certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is short, forgetting is so long.
Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.
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I just rediscovered Pablo Neruda, after reading the kwentong tambay weblog. The first time I fell in love with this particular poem was way back in college, in Communications III class. Now it’s back in my mind. Beautiful, ain’t it?
Love na naman ang usapan? Hahaha.
Grabe talaga ‘yang si Neruda. Sa lahat ng mga taong lovestruck siya yata yung pinakamalala. Pero ang galing niya ‘no? 🙂
lovesucks! dream believe die! lovesucks! meatshop tomorrow. post ka kaya ng eb para sa blog readers mo. sa meatshop haha
Joey, hahaha, sige maybe I will, kung makaadto sila. Imported man gud ni ako mga readers. 🙂
magaling talaga si neruda. may connect agad siya sa pagkasenti at pagka earthy libog ng mga pinoy.
BatJay, ano yung earthy libog? Explain mo naman sa blog mo para sa akin, kung pwede. Ano pinagkaiba nun sa normal na libog? 😉
tenganang love yan pre.. bakit hanggang dito hinahabol ako. hihinto ba ako para hawakan ko o pababayaan ko na lang para sa iba? gets mo ba? heheh
naalala ko ung friend kong si vicky sa “tonight i can write…”. wala lang. love sucks? nooninooninooninooninoo
ahh….sakto na beh! horror na sad ta!
pablo neruda! shit! he told me im not the only one who could love someone wild and mad. not the the only one who dreamt to be eaten up and molded in the tomb of a man’s sweet love!
shit na to pre’. try niyo rin “if you forget me”
,,,sana ganyan din kalala ung ibang guys!!! pambihira lng makakita ng katulad niyang makata!!! but it’s very touching!!! natouch akohhhh!!! huhuhuhu,,,swerte naman ng gurl na inspiration ng poem na toh!!!
grave!!!!