Tonight I Can write... By Pablo Neruda

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, and 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 the immense night, still more immense without her.

And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the 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 so 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.

P.S.  I did not write this. Cant even come closer to the genius. I read this poem in my last year of graduation, and it struck me as the most beautiful, passionate and romantic poem I have ever read. So just thought about sharing it with everybody who have till now not being fortunate enough to read it.  Also the lovers of poetry can sometimes go through the poems of Browning and Tennyson.. They write fantastically well. Also everybody must have heard the name of Shakespeare.. Just read his 'Tragic Dramas', they are mind blowing. Also his sonnets.