Another poem by Pablo Neruda
Who loved each other like us? Let us search
for the ancient ashes of the burnt heart
and let our kisses fall there one by one
until the uninhabited flower resurrects.
Let us love the love that consumed its fruit
and descended to earth with a face and power:
you and I are the continuing light,
its unshakable delicate thorn.
To that love buried by so much cold weather,
by snow and spring, by oblivion and autumn,
let us bring close the light of a new apple.
The freshness opened by a new wound,
like the ancient love that walks in silence
through an eternity of buried months.
for the ancient ashes of the burnt heart
and let our kisses fall there one by one
until the uninhabited flower resurrects.
Let us love the love that consumed its fruit
and descended to earth with a face and power:
you and I are the continuing light,
its unshakable delicate thorn.
To that love buried by so much cold weather,
by snow and spring, by oblivion and autumn,
let us bring close the light of a new apple.
The freshness opened by a new wound,
like the ancient love that walks in silence
through an eternity of buried months.
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