unintended, (perhaps), you brought to my present moment, when i read your comment, a most magical joy…

allow me to bring to you, here, as a reply, a poem of one of my favorite poets, — Neruda —, along with a song, similarly beautiful…

❝ • if you can stay close to me
and we can still be different,
• if the sun illuminate both of us
without our shadows overlapping,
• if we can be “ourselves, us” in
the middle of the world and together
with the world crying, laughing, living,
• if every day we’ll find out who we are
and not the memory of how we were,
• if we give each other without knowing
who will be first and who will be the last,
• if your body will sing with mine because
together it’s joy… — so it will be love…
…and will not be in vain
to wait for each other so much.❞

ᴴᵘᵍ & ᴷⁱˢˢ
© Claudia M.P.
appreciate 🤍ʸᵉˢ