And when the days grow on the soul
like a shadow at noon,
the night sets in deep, after
the stars retire,
the winds go silent in the valley,
there yet comes a time,
when that throb
of nameless pasts comes alive.
You have everyone,
yet, I know, you have no one:
is this how I love you?
I see you disappear:
the last bird into the swallowing
cloak of the fast-setting night.
After the rains, you disappeared
into the pond, hopping on lotus leaves.
An anger at my lapse,
smoulders on in winter's moist depths;
An anger at yours, hovers over
like the last cloud of the late monsoon.
Yes, when the sky weeps her
agony out,
all the hidden embers glimmer.
Now I open the window and sit longing
for the mellow autumn rains.
My Neruda moments... The italicized 'I know' in the piece is the protagonist's assertion - her belief, irrespective of what the reality is, and that is what sets the question up - is this belief the way her love manifests?