Friday, September 3, 2010

LXIV

you will know that I do and do not love you

just as life is of two minds,

a word is one wing of silence,

and fire is half made of ice.


I love you just so I can begin to love you,

to begin anew at the infinite

and to be able never to stop loving you;

For these reasons I do not love you yet.


I do and do not love you as if I held

in my hands the keys to every happiness

and an uncertain unhappy fate.


My love has two lifetimes to love you.

That's how I can love you when I don't,

and still love you when I do.


-- Rafael Campo

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