1. IF YOU FORGET ME
Pablo Neruda
I want you to know If you think it long and mad,
one thing. the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
You know how this is: and you decide
if I look to leave me at the shore
at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the heart where I have roots,
of the slow autumn at my window, remember
if I touch that on that day,
near the fire at that hour,
the impalpable ash I shall lift my arms
or the wrinkled body of the log, and my roots will set off
everything carries me to you, to seek another land.
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals, But
were little boats if each day,
that sail each hour,
toward those isles of yours that wait you feel that you are destined for me
for me. with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
Well, now, climbs up to your lips to seek me,
if little by little you stop loving me ah my love, ah my own,
I shall stop loving you little by little. in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or
If suddenly forgotten,
you forget me my love feeds on your love, beloved,
do not look for me, and as long as you live it will be in
for I shall already have forgotten you. your arms
without leaving mine.