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Thursday, August 21, 2008

I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You [Pablo Neruda]

I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

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I remember her asking why I love her. This (referring to the poem) is what i always tell her. I think Coelho got a line from this poem for The Alchemist. I believe sa scene nung shepherd at ni Fatima sa oasis. Tinanong ni Fatima kung bakit love siya ni shepherd. then ito na nga sagot niya. yun. wala lang.

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