thesoulslanguage:

doctorwho:

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Quote from ‘Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines’ by Pablo Neruda

Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example,’The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.’
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me sometimes, and I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is shattered and she is not with me.
This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.
The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.
I no longer love her, that’s certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.
Another’s. She will be another’s. Like my kisses before.
Her void. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.
I no longer love her, that’s certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.

Pablo Neruda
 
——-
Puedo Escribir los Versos Más Tristes Esta Noche.

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Escribir, por ejemplo : ‘La noche está estrellada,
y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos’.
El viento de la noche gira en el cielo y canta.
Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Yo la quise, y a veces ella también me quiso.
En las noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos.
La besé tantas veces bajo el cielo infinito.
Ella me quiso, a veces yo también la quería.
Cómo no haber amado sus grandes ojos fijos.
Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Pensar que no la tengo. Sentir que la he perdido.
Oir la noche immensa, más inmensa sin ella.
Y el verso cae al alma como al pasto el rocío.
Qué importa que mi amor no pudiera guardarla.
La noche está estrellada y ella no está conmigo.
Eso es todo. A lo lejos alguien canta. A lo lejos.
Mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.
Como para acercarla mi mirada la busca.
Mi corazón la busca, y ella no está conmigo.
La misma noche que hace blanquear los mismos arboles.
Nosotros, los de entonces, ya no somos los mismos.
Ya no la quiero, es cierto pero cuánto la quise.
Mi voz buscaba el viento para tocar su oído.
De otro. Será de otro. Como antes de mis besos.
Su voz, su cuerpo claro. Sus ojos infinitos.
Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.
Es tan corto al amor, y es tan largo el olvido.
Porque en noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos,
mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.
Aunque ésta sea el último dolor que ella me causa,
y éstos sean los últimos versos que yo le escribo.
- Pablo Neruda

(Source: areyoumarriedriver)

@3 months ago with 4353 notes
#love #break-ups #relationships #heartache #healing #colombian poets #poetas Colombianos #doctor who #River song #forgetting #pablo neruda #nerd moment #neruda 
  1. caitster123 reblogged this from fyeah-riversong
  2. galfrey reblogged this from rosesoswald
  3. badgerwrangler reblogged this from rosesoswald
  4. live-love-fangirl reblogged this from allons-y-baby
  5. vinscribbles reblogged this from allons-y-baby
  6. that-bow-tie reblogged this from rosesoswald
  7. allons-y-baby reblogged this from rosesoswald
  8. inafairytale reblogged this from rosesoswald
  9. rosesoswald reblogged this from amysgone
  10. justncases reblogged this from mad-impossible-p0nd
  11. happy-shakes reblogged this from doctorwho
  12. kittens-and-1d reblogged this from bow-tiesand-the-tardis4ever
  13. doctorsnewood reblogged this from kingtogepi
  14. the221btardis reblogged this from dwmerlinfans
  15. a-bit-of-owlish-fun reblogged this from dwmerlinfans
  16. badgersliketoast reblogged this from dwmerlinfans
  17. kingtogepi reblogged this from issmallerontheoutside
  18. will-fangirl-over-anything reblogged this from dwmerlinfans
  19. dwmerlinfans reblogged this from issmallerontheoutside
  20. gottalovesunsets reblogged this from issmallerontheoutside
  21. spoilers-goodbyesweetie reblogged this from issmallerontheoutside
  22. starfrenzie95 reblogged this from issmallerontheoutside
  23. mad-impossible-p0nd reblogged this from issmallerontheoutside
  24. nattogo reblogged this from issmallerontheoutside
  25. pondsouffle reblogged this from issmallerontheoutside
  26. bow-tiesand-the-tardis4ever reblogged this from issmallerontheoutside
  27. issmallerontheoutside reblogged this from amysgone
  28. herpaderpapottamus reblogged this from sunsetorangepeeta
  29. tardisgames reblogged this from sunsetorangepeeta
  30. secretly-brucewayne reblogged this from sunsetorangepeeta
  31. sunsetorangepeeta reblogged this from amysgone
  32. aalaveera reblogged this from danrdarrenc
  33. ironmans-jarvis reblogged this from laughithelps
  34. lulipetri reblogged this from davidtennantsexyman