tonight i can write the saddest lines - pablo neruda

read by: Andy Garcia

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to a pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is shattered and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.
Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.

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[chelseagrin1992]

i cried.

[ambaryoselin]

The beauty is lost in translation... It is beautiful in english, but in spanish it leaves a deeper feeling.

[nasmijanocudoviste]

When I first read this poem - it felt like love at first sight... But tonight I feel like I wrote it.

Thank you Neruda. :)

[Josearamb]

@flickerman68 This is poema XX by Pablo Neruda it is taken from 20 poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (20 love poems and a desperate song).

[Josearamb]

this words hold great beauty, but i think much of gets lost when translated. still beautiful but not te same, in spanish this lines send shivers down my spine and make me want to cry.

[adoseofmia]

My favorite translation

[ElChailenger]

I love it...

[chopita10]

hermoso!



[RidetheKnightmare]

I've always loved this poem. I just never fully understood it until tonight. My girlfriend broke up with me, and Pablo Neruda expresses perfectly how I feel. Although he does make it so much more depressing too. =(

[goof182]

Tonight i can write the saddest lines. Write for exmaple; she has stripped the skin from my naked body only so the brisk air grazes over my bear organs. Though this be the last pain she makes me suffer...

[Asrealasfaboulous]

I'm in love with him

[bullymaster666]

A great Communist and poet! Pablo Neruda, a poet of the working class.