Don't go far off

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julia Margaret Cameron

                                                 Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
                                                 because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long
                                                 and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
                                                 when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

                                                 Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
                                                 then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
                                                 the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
                                                 into me, choking my lost heart.

                                                 Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
                                                 may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.
                                                 Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,

                                                 because in that moment you'll have gone so far
                                                 I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
                                                Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?

 

                                                                           * Pablo Neruda *

Sometimes the time can be long, very long. And then you are sitting at home and wondering how the time will pass, till we meet again. 

Yours, Ailena