Hello, and happy new year! I was going to write about the significance of the start of a new year and indeed decade, but this caught my attention instead, so I'd thought I'd share it - hope you like it as much as I do!
Love Sonnet LXXXIX
When I die, I want your hands on my eyes:
I want the light and the wheat of your beloved hands
to pass their freshness over me once more:
I want to feel the softness that changed my destiny.
I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep.
I want your ears still to hear the wind, I want you
to sniff the sea's aroma that we loved together,
to continue to walk on the sand we walk on.
I want what I love to continue to live,
and you whom I love and sang above everything else
to continue to flourish, full-flowered:
so that you can reach everything my love directs you to,
so that my shadow can travel along in your hair,
so that everything can learn the reason for my song.
by Pablo Neruda
It's in a lovely little book called 'Ten poems to open your heart', by Roger Housden
Hope your year, and heart, are filled with love; today and always xx
Thats a LOVEly way to start the year. :)
ReplyDeleteaw, thank you - thought you'd like it!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year,
lots of LOVE! xx