neruda 57

have i lost the moon, stranded in the desert?
for i know that is what you had heard
spat out by cold-blooded oracles
waiting on the demise of our universe.

i will not sing the sweet siren song.
tonight you have no one to sing to,
they say, their hands tearing me
apart from my guitar, my oblivion.

i stare after them with only our love in mind, 
and in mind ran to chase after you, following
the scent of jasmine flowers you left behind.

i fell missing the sight of your eyes. in the morning 
when i woke, i awakened with the light owed 
to a blind man, starving in his darkness.

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