I learned about lifefrom life itself,love I learned in a single kissand could teach no one anythingexcept that I have livedwith something in common among men,when fighting with them,when saying all their say in my song.Pablo Neruda- "Ode to the Book,

while inside, a ferocious love wound aroundand around me-till it pierced me with its thorns, its sword,slashing a seared road through my heart100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, translated by Stephen Tapscott

so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart.

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

We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.