Epithalamium - Pablo Neruda Do you remember when in winter we reached the island? The sea raised toward us a crown of cold. On the walls the climbing vines murmured letting dark leaves fall as we passed. You too were a little leaf that trembled on my chest. Lifes wind put you there. At first I did not see you: I did not know that you were walking with me, until your roots pierced my chest joined the threads of my blood spoke through my mouth flourished with me. Thus was your inadvertent presence invisible leaf or branch and suddenly my heart was filled with fruits and sounds You occupied the house that darkly awaited you and then you lit the lamps. ... the island of stone and moss echoed in the secret of its grottoes like the song in your mouth and the flower that was born between the crevices of the stone with its secret syllable spole, as it passed, your name of blazing plant and the steep rock raised like the wall of the world, knew my song, well beloved, and all things spoke of your love, my love, beloved because earth, time, sea, island life, tide the seed that half opens its lips in the earth the devouring flower the movement of spring everything recognizes us. Our love was born outside the walls in the wind in the night in the earth and thats why the clay and the flower the mud and the roots know your name and know that my mouth joined yours because we were sown together in the earth and we alone did not know it and that we grow together and flower together and therefore when we pass your name is on the petals of the rose that grows on the stone, my name is in the grottoes They know it all we have no secrets we have grown together but we did not know it. The sea knows our love, the stones of the rocky height know that our kisses flowered with infinite purity as in their crevices a scarlet mouth dawns just as our love and the kiss that joins your mouth and mine in an eternal flower. My love, sweet spring, flower and sea, surround us. We did not change it for our winter when the wind began to decipher your name and today at all hours it repeats when the leaves did not know that you were a leaf when the roots did not know that you were seeking me in my breast. Love, love, spring offers us the sky but the dark earth is our name our love belongs to all time and the earth. Loving each other, my arm beneath your neck of sand we shall wait as earth and time change on the island as the leaves fall from the silent climbing vines as autumn departs through the broken window. But we are going to wait for our friend our red-eyed friend the fire, when the wind again shakes the frontiers of the island and does not know the names of everyone winter will seek us, my love always it will seek us, because we know it because we do not fear it because have with us fire forever, spring with us forever and when a leaf falls from the climbing vines you know, my love what name is written o on that leaf, a names that is yours and mine our love name, a single being, the arrow that pierced winter the invincible love the fire of the days a leaf that dropped upon my breast a leaf from the tree of life that made a nest and sang that put out roots that gave flowers and fruits. And so you see, my love, how I move around the island around the world safe in the midst of spring crazy with light in the cold walking tranquil in the fire lifting your petal weight in my arms as if I had never walked excpet with you, my heart as if I could not walk except with you as if I could not sing except when you sing.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:39:32 +0000
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