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 waythan 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.
----Pablo Neruda
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ohhh.. thankyou for posting this!! I had read it in college long back- one afternoon in library, while I was supposed to be doing a tute or something. I remembered nothing about the poem but as I read I knew it was the same poem because the line - "I love you as certain dark things are to be loved", had somehow stayed with me.
aww.. makes me wanna go back among the dusty bookshelfs of college library. I think it was my favourite place in the entire college..
Much As I am incapable of appreciating this genre of literature-poetry ...the thoughts brought out so beautifully in this piece,are surely the ones i would like to be surrounded by in times when im doubtful about the place 'Love ' occupies in my life.
chalo ..this means you guys peep into my blog once in a while..coz even I was not attending to my blog that regularly...I saw these lines on the orkut "personal" section of some guy then I googled it..and I really liked it so I posted it on mine..[:)]
even I like the lines.."I love you as certain dark things ..."
and also the last two lines..the your hand on my chest or something like that..
and my dear dusky oriya beauty..
you can always turn to these line sin times of doubt and dilemma..
:)
r u online?? because i saw this lovely new layout of your homepage and was gonna tell you how nice it looks, when i refreshed the page and it was back to th old layout - i.e with the sidebar on right hand side. nice library section.
Thank you..glad that you like the new layout..got the idea from another blog..maybe you saw the old page when you refreshed because i see ur comment was posted at 1.40..if it was in the afternoon then maybe because at that time i was tinkering with my page and nothing was final yet..this layout is there to stay..at least for some days :)
Mast!!
This is poetry! Senti hai bt mast!
i wrote one of this kind myself... dnt remember if i posted it on my blog.
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