I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You

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 cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, 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 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 blood.

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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