Incendiary Love

November 21st, 2009

Sonnet LXVI
POSTED AT 10:12 PM

I do not love you--except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
from waiting to not waiting for you
my heart moves from the cold into the fire.

I love you only because it's you I love;
I hate you no end, and hating you
bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe the January light will consume
my heart with its cruel
ray, stealing my key to true calm.

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.

~ Pablo Neruda

5 comments

DarkestSecret

Comment posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 05:27 AM

I love Neruda!!
~like a flower to its perfume I am bound to my vague memory of you~

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Comment posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 06:11 PM

ay oo naman. he really is good!

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DarkestSecret

Comment posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 09:55 PM

I wonder how a "political" kind of guy could have come up with such beautiful poetry.

I want to marry a poet! :D

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lifeisabitch

Comment posted on November 21st, 2009 at 11:56 PM

Thanks for posting this.. :)

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Comment posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 06:11 PM

my pleasure sis.

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