TONIGHT I CAN WRITE

by Pablo Neruda

Tonight I can write the saddest lines

write, for example, 'The night is shattered

And the blue stars shiver in the distance'

the night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

tonight I can write the saddest lines.

I loved her, sometimes she loved me too.

through nights like this one I held her in arms.

I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.

How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.

And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.