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POEM OF THE DAY "Saddest Poem" by Pablo Neruda


Saddest Poem

by 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.

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5 comments:

  1. lovely poem. Thank you for sharing it with us.

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  2. Oh grow up and get a life. You have NO fucking idea what it's like to lose someone. That's not sad, it's pathetic. Come back when you really love someone and she dies. THAT's sad beyond measure.

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  3. I have a theory that people who post comments anonymously are sad, sad people who can't connect with others and can't connect with their inner self. I'm not judging, just sharing my thoughts.

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  4. LOL, well, I guess the poem inspires strong emotions. Glad to see some life here...

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