A Poem about Love

This is one of my favorite poems for so many reasons. My favorite quote of all time is highlighted in bold. Love is so indefinable. It just happens. Regardless if I believe it is delusional or not.... It is completely real. You can't deny it when you feel is. But humans remains clueless of how love come about. It just is. And once one achieves this emotion with another, it is the most spectacular feeling in the universe.

Sonnet 17

I do not love you as if you were a salt-rose, or topaz

or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

In secret, between the shadow and the soul

I love you as the plant that never blooms

but carried in itself the light of hidden flowers;

thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance

risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where

I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;

so I love you because I know no other way

In which there is no I or you

so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand

so intimate that when you fall asleep it is my eyes that close

Pablo Neruda

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