Don't go far off .
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 w a i t i n g for you,
as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off
somewhere else, a s l e e p .
Don't l e a v e me,
even for an hour,
because
then the little drops of a n g u i s h
will all run together,
the smoke that roams
looking for a home will drift into me,
choking my l o s t 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 d e a r e s t ,
because in that moment
you'll have gone so far
I'll w a n d e r mazily over all the earth,
asking,
Will you come back?
Will you leave me here, d y i n g ?
- Pablo Neruda
