I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair by Pablo Neruda
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I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair by Pablo Neruda
DON ’T GO FAR OFF , NOT EVEN FOR A DAY 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?
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this poem is not "I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair" (which is actually titled XI in Neruda's Cien Sonetos de Amor), it is XLV. Under the first line as title format, you'd want to say Don't Go Far Off, Not Even for a Day
so, title inaccuracies aside, i must say that this is one of him most evocative sonnets - especially beautiful out of translation
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent, starving I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disquiets me,
I search the liquid sound of your steps all day.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
For your hands the color of the wild grain,
I hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your loveliness,
The nose, sovereign of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,
And I walk hungry, smelling the twilight
Looking for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barren wilderness.