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If You Forget Me<\/b><\/p>\n

I want you to know
\none thing.<\/p>\n

You know how this is:
\nif I look
\nat the crystal moon, at the red branch
\nof the slow autumn at my window,
\nif I touch
\nnear the fire
\nthe impalpable ash
\nor the wrinkled body of the log,
\neverything carries me to you,
\nas if everything that exists,
\naromas, light, metals,
\nwere little boats
\nthat sail
\ntoward those isles of yours that wait for me.<\/p>\n

Well, now,
\nif little by little you stop loving me
\nI shall stop loving you little by little.<\/p>\n

If suddenly
\nyou forget me
\ndo not look for me,
\nfor I shall already have forgotten you.<\/p>\n

If you think it long and mad,
\nthe wind of banners
\nthat passes through my life,
\nand you decide
\nto leave me at the shore
\nof the heart where I have roots,
\nremember
\nthat on that day,
\nat that hour,
\nI shall lift my arms
\nand my roots will set off
\nto seek another land.<\/p>\n

But
\nif each day,
\neach hour,
\nyou feel that you are destined for me
\nwith implacable sweetness,
\nif each day a flower
\nclimbs up to your lips to seek me,
\nah my love, ah my own,
\nin me all that fire is repeated,
\nin me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
\nmy love feeds on your love, beloved,
\nand as long as you live it will be in your arms
\nwithout leaving mine.<\/p>\n

– Pablo Neruda<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And also…<\/p>\n

Why did I dream of you last night?
\n Now morning is pushing back hair with grey light
\n Memories strike home, like slaps in the face;
\nRaised on elbow, I stare at the pale fog
\n beyond the window.<\/p>\n

So many things I had thought forgotten
\n Return to my mind with stranger pain:
\n– Like letters that arrive addressed to someone
\nWho left the house so many years ago. <\/p>\n

– Philip Larkin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Must be the weather again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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