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  Jun 2017 pj
Pablo Neruda
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."

The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like this, I held her in my arms.
I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.

To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.

What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.

As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.

The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.

Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.

Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.

Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her.
  Jun 2017 pj
Pablo Neruda
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
pj May 2017
it wasn't all bright and jubilant
it wasn't pretty
it was grim and ash grey
and drops of blood
on the corner of our bedsheet

rip out my heart
beat the **** out of me
and then let your warm lips rest on my head
tell me you love me still
pj Apr 2017
What if the sky is pink one day?
What if the atmosphere smells of vanilla?
What if the birds suddenly start to sing love songs?
And the leaves start to rustle in harmony with my heart?

What if the day starts to shine?
What if the stars blink even in the bright?
What if the ground is weak the way I do in your arms?
And the warmth of the sun feels like your embrace?

What if here is our paradise, all ours?



What can I say

Everything

Anything

is possible when I'm with you
pj Jan 2017
that smile lights up the world
brighter than the sun did

that hair looks like perfect waves
washing me away

that mind intrigues me
making me addicted to his thoughts

I can finally call you mine
Will be edited later
pj Jan 2017
That is the case, for us
We are two very different individual
We are unique by our own and
It is true that you enchanted me with your mind
So distinctive and complex and odd and intriguing
Yet beautiful
But it tortures my heart
A tactless and indifferent and apathetical
Soul
Always ravaging me
In ways that
Dismembered my limbs
Disfigured my being
In ways that people can't see
In ways that only we
Can do to each other

I don't want to force the Universe, you know
Because sometimes
Even the people who love each other very much doesn't get to be together
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