Latikaa

“I want to see thirst
In the syllables,
Touch fire
In the sound;
Feel through the dark
For the scream.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Whom can I ask what I came
to make happen in the world?”
― Pablo Neruda

“I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.”
― Pablo Neruda

“LXXIX

When I die, I want your hands on my eyes.
I want the light and wheat of your beloved hands to pass their freshness over me once more.
I want to feel the softness that changed my destiny.

I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep.
I want your ears still to hear the wind, I want you to sniff the sea's aroma that we loved together,
to continue to walk on the sand we walk on.

I want what I love to continue to live,
and you whom I love and sang above everything else.
to continue to flourish, full-flowered.

So that you can reach everything my love directs you to.
So that my shadow can travel along in your hair,
so that everything can learn the reason for my song.”
― Pablo Neruda