"I Will Return" by Pablo Neruda

 I Will Return

by Pablo Neruda

Some other time, man or woman, traveler,

later, when I am not alive,

look here, look for me

between stone and ocean,

in the light storming through the foam.

Look here, look for me,

for here I will return, without saying a thing,

without voice, without mouth, pure,

here I will return to be the churning

of the water, of

its unbroken heart,

here, I will be discovered and lost:

here, I will, perhaps, be stone and silence.

 

See: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, edited by Ilan Stavans (NY, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2003)

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