| Pablo Neruda, one of the most revered and celebrated poets the world has ever known, had written some of the most beautiful poems on friendship and love. In fact, it makes us wonder whether love and friendship are the two sides of the same coin. Friendship like love needs to be sustained, otherwise it will seek comfort elsewhere. Some excerpts from a famous Pablo Neruda poem:
If You Forget Me
I want you to know
one thing.
You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
And again the next few lines,
Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.
If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.
If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.
And the last lines,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.
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