The Bibliophile's Bookshelf

It’s time for another Saturday Spotlight! This month’s theme is poems and so far I have shared Today, The Sciences Sing a Lullaby, First Dog in Space, and A Dog Has Died. You can find those posts here, here, here, and here.

This week’s poem is by Pablo Neruda- one of my all-time favorite poets! You might have noticed that I like the slightly more emotional poems, and this one is no exception. I chanced upon this one and immediately fell in love. It’s just so beautiful and heartfelt. This poem is called When I Die I Want Your Hands on My Eyes, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

When I die I want your hands on my eyes:

I want the light and the wheat of your beloved hands

to pass their freshness over me one more time

to feel the smoothness that changed my destiny.

I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep,

I want for your ears to go on hearing the wind,

for you to smell the sea that we loved together

and for you to go on walking the sand where we walked.

I want for what I love to go on living

and as for you I loved you and sang you above everything,

for that, go on flowering, flowery one,

so that you reach all that my love orders for you,

so that my shadow passes through your hair,

so that they know by this the reason for my song.