Even if by your glances
you were not the pale
specter of the moon
complete with
a whole day's
industry and fire
even if you were frozen
in the air and did not move
at all like the air
even if you lacked
the splendor of an hour
no the splendor of a week
for why it is like
the very flash that
contaminates the
vines
and trees with autumn
you, who I behold with
all my reverence
how could you doubt
my love so
when I embrace you
I embrace an entirety
of vastness
for all of you lives
and persists through me
and sustains me
endures within
and through out me
Aug 26, 2016
Aug 26, 2016 at 4:25 PM UTC
Even if by your glances
you were not the pale
specter of the moon
complete with
a whole day's
industry and fire
even if you were frozen
in the air and did not move
at all like the air
even if you lacked
the splendor of an hour
no the splendor of a week
for why it is like
the very flash that
contaminates the
vines
and trees with autumn
you, who I behold with
all my reverence
how could you doubt
my love so
when I embrace you
I embrace an entirety
of vastness
for all of you lives
and persists through me
and sustains me
endures within
and through out me
From Neruda's Hundred Love Sonnets
