If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda

If You Forget Me

By Pablo Neruda

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine

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Stellar By Kendall Rose

 Stellar

By Kendall Rose

Maybe I don't understand  

The Laws of Physics or
Stellar evolution,
But I know that
your atoms are composed of stardust
Maybe this is why the life in your eyes
is illuminating everything like a carbon giant.

In astronomy they told us
that the darkest parts of space
often contain the most energy
And I thought you should know,
that just like the ancient galaxies inside of you,
your darkest parts still shine.

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Sunlove by Joseph A. Orellana

 

  Sun love

By Joseph A. Orellana  

Your occasion Is the sky
Spilling forth
Thunderous
My nascence
For I was born
Within the taste
Of your shy-full lips-kiss
Glance,
And I went mesmerized
Tasting the apple
Sweetness of you
For headlong days
Looking in other lips for
New anxieties;
I’d become inevitable
Seeker of your
Chaliced taste:
Thinking you an accident,
I searched in other
Kisses what you’d conjured up
In my wanton heart
So great my lust of you,
I became lost and
Enamored famish
I filled with nothing but
Disenchantments
Until you surged forth
Flower of my soul,
With you being the reason
Of me, my all ardent sunlove

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Memories by Lang Leav

Memories

By Lang Leav

“Love, he has abandoned me,
do with me as you will.
Love, he left - unceremoniously,
why must I love him still?

The best of me I gave to him -
the years, the days, the hours.
Precious little, in turn he'd given,
like dew to a wilting flower.

Love, he sheared away tenderly,
my beauty, my strength, my mind,
the gifts that were bestowed to me -
were swallowed in his pride.

Love, has he forgotten me?
Please tell me what you've heard,
I guard his memory jealously -
with him I'd place my worth.” 

“I want you to know how happy you once made me and though you really did hurt me, in the end, I was better for it. I don't know if what we had was love, but if it wasn't, I hope never to fall in love. Because of you, I know I am too fragile to bear it.”

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Lullabies by Lang Leav

Lullabies
By Lang Leav

I still search you

“I still search for you in crowds,

in empty fields and soaring clouds.

In city lights and passing cars,

on winding roads and wishing stars.”

 

Entwined

There is a line
I’m yet to sever—
it goes from  me
to you.
There was a time
you swore forever,
And I am captive
to its pull.
If you were kind,
you’d cut the tether—
but I must ask you
to be cruel.

There are things I miss
that I shouldn't,
and those I don't
that I should.

Sometimes we want
what we couldn't—
sometimes we love
who we could.”

 

 

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Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav

Love & Misadventure

By Lang Leav

Maybe I should let you go

“You were you,
and I was I;
we were two
before our time.
I was yours
before I knew,
and you have always
been mine too.”

Where are you?

“It happens like this.

"One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else--closer to them than your closest family. Perhaps this person carries within them an angel--one sent to you for some higher purpose; to teach you an important lesson or to keep you safe during a perilous time. What you must do is trust in them--even if they come hand in hand with pain or suffering--the reason for their presence will become clear in due time."

Though here is a word of warning--you may grow to love this person but remember they are not yours to keep. Their purpose isn't to save you but to show you how to save yourself. And once this is fulfilled; the halo lifts and the angel leaves their body as the person exits your life. They will be a stranger to you once more.

It's so dark right now, I can't see any light around me.
That's because the light is coming from you. You can't see it but everyone else can.”

Him

“What was it like to love him? Asked Gratitude.
  It was like being exhumed, I answered, and brought to life in a flash of brilliance.

What was it like to be loved in return? Asked Joy.
It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.

What was it like to lose him? Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded:

It was like hearing every goodbye ever said to me—said all at once.”

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