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May 24, 2005
on the blue shore of silence
1)
Let us look for secret things
Somewhere in the world,
On the blue shore of silence
Or where the storm has passed,
Rampaging like a train.
There the faint signs are left,
Coins of time and water,
Debris, celestial ash
And the irreplaceable rapture
Of sharing in the labor
Of solitude and the sand.
2)
I will have to wait for the fog,
The flying salt, the scattered sun,
For the sea to breath and breath on me;
Because water is not just water
But a hazy intrusion,
And the waves roll on in the air
Like invisible horses.
3)
And so I have to learn
To swim inside my dreams
In case the sea should come
And visit me in my sleep.
And if that happens, all will be well
And when tomorrow stirs
On the wet stones, the sand
And the great resounding sway of sea
Will know who I am and why I return,
Will accept me into their school.
And I can be content again
In the solitude of the sand,
Graduated by the wind
And respected by the sea-world.
Pablo Neruda
Posted by amin at May 24, 2005 12:07 AM
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