Clenched Soul by Pablo Neruda
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February 13th
We have lost even this twilight,
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
While the blue night dropped on the world.
I have seen from my window
The fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
Burned like a coin in my hand.
I remembered you with my soul clenched
In that sadness of mine that you know.
Where were you then?
Who was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
When I am sad and you are far away?
The book fell that always closed at twilight
Always, always you recede through the evenings
Toward the twilight chasing statues.
