A review by michaelapr
The Yellow Heart by Pablo Neruda

reflective fast-paced

3.75

"That's why the love I give you,
my woman, my needle woman, 
coils in your ear moistened 
by the sea winds of Chillán 
and uncoils in your eyes, 
letting sadness drift"

"And from offering no answers, 
I have a yellow heart"

"Pure faith cannot withstand 
the assaults of winter"

"Nothing is gained by flying 
to escape this globe
that trapped you at birth. 
And we need to confess our hope 
that understanding and love 
come from below, climb 
and grow inside us 
like onions, like oak trees,
like tortoises or flowers, 
like countries,
like races, 
like roads and destinations"

"You must control yourself, sir, 
friend, you must control yourself, 
they advised me one by one, 
they advised me little by little, 
they advised me over and over, 
until I'd forget myself 
and I forgot myself all the time"

"I love you, I love you, is my song 
and hear my silliness begins."

"And if love is like wine: 
you are my predilection"

"It's a fact, the desert 
is the other face of night, 
so infinite, unexplored, 
like the non-existence of the stars"

"But the truth is, I never 
slept with anybody 
but the sands of night, 
the circumstances of the desert 
or the stars in space."

"I gathered up my choices, 
renounced what wasn't mine 
and found at my feet and with my eyes 
the abundances of autumn"

"The flash taught me calm, 
not to lose lights in the sky, 
to search inside of myself 
for the galleries of Earth"

"Because I arrived at the crossroads 
from a complicated destination, 
when ticking clocks fade away 
and the sky tumbles across the sky 
until the dying day 
takes the moon for a walk"
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