Pablo Neruda — "I Will Return"

Some other time, man or woman, traveler,

later, when I am not alive,

look here, look for me

between stone and ocean,

in the light storming

through the foam.

Look here, look for me,

for here I will return, without saying a thing, pure,

here I will return to be the churning

of the water, of

its unbroken heart,

here, I will be discovered and lost:

here, I will, perhaps, be stone and silence.

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Pablo Neruda. Isla Negra. Trans. by Maria Jacetti, Dennis Maloney, and Clark Zlotchew. Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2001.