I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair

Don't go far off, not even for a day
Don't go far off, not even for a day, because -
Because - I don't know how to say it: a day is long
And I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
When the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
Then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
The smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
Into me, choking my lost heart.

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
May your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.

Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,
Because in that moment you'll have gone so far
I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?

Pablo Neruda
(1904-1973)
This Chilean poet, and diplomat, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. His original name was Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, but he used the pen name Pablo Neruda for over 20 years before adopting it legally in 1946. Neruda is the most widely read of the Spanish American poets. Neruda's 'Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair' (1924) have sold over a million copies since it first appeared.

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