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  • Artist Info: If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda<br />
    <br />
    I want you to know<br />
    one thing.<br />
    <br />
    You know how this is:<br />
    if I look<br />
    at the crystal moon, at the red branch<br />
    of the slow autumn at my window,<br />
    if I touch<br />
    near the fire<br />
    the impalpable ash<br />
    or the wrinkled body of the log,<br />
    everything carries me to you,<br />
    as if everything that exists,<br />
    aromas, light, metals,<br />
    were little boats<br />
    that sail<br />
    toward those isles of yours that wait for me.<br />
    <br />
    Well, now,<br />
    if little by little you stop loving me<br />
    I shall stop loving you little by little.<br />
    <br />
    If suddenly<br />
    you forget me<br />
    do not look for me,<br />
    for I shall already have forgotten you.<br />
    <br />
    If you think it long and mad,<br />
    the wind of banners<br />
    that passes through my life,<br />
    and you decide<br />
    to leave me at the shore<br />
    of the heart where I have roots,<br />
    remember<br />
    that on that day,<br />
    at that hour,<br />
    I shall lift my arms<br />
    and my roots will set off<br />
    to seek another land.<br />
    <br />
    But<br />
    if each day,<br />
    each hour,<br />
    you feel that you are destined for me<br />
    with implacable sweetness,<br />
    if each day a flower<br />
    climbs up to your lips to seek me,<br />
    ah my love, ah my own,<br />
    in me all that fire is repeated,<br />
    in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,<br />
    my love feeds on your love, beloved,<br />
    and as long as you live it will be in your arms<br />
    without leaving mine
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