THE WONDERFUL COLLOQUIUM, PABLO NERUDA

 

THE WONDERFUL COLLOQUIUM

Fights.

I was going down the path, you were coming down it,

my love fell into your arms, your love trembled in mine.

Since then my night sky had stars

and to collect them your life became a river.

For you every rock that my hands will touch

It must be a spring, aroma, fruit and flower.

Melisande.

For you each ear must tighten its grain

and in each ear my love must unfold.

Pelleas

You will prevent me, however, from looking at the path

when death comes to leave it truncated.

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They will cover my eyes like a double blindfold.

Fights.

You will tell me about a path that never ends.

The music that I hide to enchant you flees

far from the song that bubbles and stands out;

Like a milky way my chest flows.

Melisande.

The highest stars are entangled in your arms.

I'm afraid. Forgive me for not having arrived sooner.

Fights/

A smile from you erases an entire past;

Your sweet lips guard what is already distant.

Melisande.

In a kiss, you'll know everything I kept silence.

Fights.

Maybe then I won't know how to know your caress,

because in my veins your being will have been confused.

Melisande

When I bite a fruit you will know its deliciousness.

Fights.

When you close your eyes I will fall asleep