It’s good to feel you are close to me





It’s good to feel you are close to me in the night, love,

invisible in your sleep, intently nocturnal,

while I untangle my worries

as if they were twisted nets.



Withdrawn, your heart sails through dream,

but your body, relinquished so, breathes

seeking me without seeing me perfecting my dream

like a plant that seeds itself in the dark.



Rising, you will be that other, alive in the dawn,

but from the frontiers lost in the night,

from the presence and the absence where we meet ourselves,



something remains, drawing us into the light of life

as if the sign of the shadows had sealed

its secret creatures with flame.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

From: ‘Cien sonetos de amor’

~ Pablo Neruda

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