If You Forget MeI want you to knowone thing. You know how this is:if I lookat the crystal moon, at the red branchof the slow autumn at my window, if I touchnear the firethe impalpable ashor the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boatsthat sailtoward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenlyyou forget medo not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad, the wind of bannersthat passes through my life, and you decideto leave me at the shoreof the heart where I have roots, rememberthat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsand my roots will set offto seek another land. Butif each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for mewith implacable sweetness, if each day a flowerclimbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your armswithout leaving mine. Pablo Neruda
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The poet Rainer Maria Rilke said it best: "If you forget me, I want you to know that it is because you forgot that I love you. If I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists - aromas, light, metals - were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well now, if little by little you stop loving me, I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me don't look for me for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad then let the wind of banners that pass through my life and you decide to leave me at the shore of hearts where I have roots, remember that on that day at that hour I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land. But if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love , ah my own in me all that fire is repeated and in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten. My love feeds on your love beloved and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine."

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