Amor"So many days, oh so many daysseeing you so tangible and so close, how do I pay, with what do I pay? The bloodthirsty springhas awakened in the woods. The foxes start from their earths, the serpents drink the dew, and I go with you in the leavesbetween the pines and the silence, asking myself how and when I will have to pay for my luck. Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing:of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others loveor how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature. You please me more each afternoon. Where is she? I keep on askingif your eyes disappear. How long she's taking! I think, and I'm hurt. I feel poor, foolish and sad, and you arrive and you are lightningglancing off the peach trees. That's why I love you and yet not why. There are so many reasons, and yet so few, for love has to be so, involving and general, particular and terrifying, joyful and grieving, flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss. That's why I love you and yet not why. There are so many reasons, and yet so few, for love has to be so, involving and general, particular and terrifying, joyful and grieving, flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss. . Pablo Neruda
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The point of the poem is to show how in your life, there are many things that you cannot explain, but love is one of them. Love is something that comes from the heart and no matter how much it hurts when you lose somebody or somebody leaves you, it is always worth it when somebody loves you for who you are. In this poem, the author explains how she will always love the person who left her, but she also understands why they have to leave her life.

Source: Intimacies: Poems Of Love

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