maddieness ★

Apr 17th, 2009 @ 12:25 am

Sonnet LXXIX

reluctantbuddha:

Tie your heart at night to mine, love,
and both will defeat the darkness
against the heavy wall of wet leaves.

Night crossing: black coal of dream
That cuts the thread of earthly orbs
with the punctuality of a headlong train
that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly.

Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement,
to the grip on life that beats in your breast,
with the wings of a submerged swan,

So that our dream might reply
to the sky’s questioning stars
with one key, one door closed to shadow.

Pablo Neruda

Reblogged from the reluctant buddha.

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