Samantha & Rick | Evoke Images

Love, how often I loved you without seeing – without remembering you….

Not recognizing your glance, not knowing you….

Or maybe I saw you, imagined you lifting a wineglass by the light of the summer’s moon…..

I loved you without knowing I did….. I searched to remember you…..

And, suddenly….

…when you were there with me

I touched you… and my life stopped!

You took dominion like a queen….

like a wildfire in the forest….

Love, how often I loved you without seeing —

without remembering you —

not recognizing your glance, not knowing you, a gentian

in the wrong place, scorching in the hot noon,

but I loved only the smell of the wheat.

Or maybe I saw you, imagined you lifting a wineglass

in Angol, by the light of the summer’s moon;

or were you the waist of that guitar I strummed

in the shadows, the one that rang like an impetuous sea?

I loved you without knowing I did; I searched to remember you.

I broke into houses to steal your likeness,

though I already knew what you were like. And, suddenly,

when you were there with me I touched you, and my life

stopped: you stood before me, you took dominion like a queen:

like a wildfire in the forest, and the flame is your dominion.

~ Pablo Neruda

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