https://poemofday.com/categories/neruda/Recent content in Neruda on Poem of the DayHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://poemofday.com/p/tonight-i-can-write-the-saddest-lines/Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://poemofday.com/p/tonight-i-can-write-the-saddest-lines/<p>Tonight I can write the saddest lines.</p> <p>The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance. The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.</p> <p>Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.</p> <p>Through nights like this one I held her in my arms. I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.</p> <p>She loved me, sometimes I loved her too. How could one not have loved her great still eyes.</p> <p>Tonight I can write the saddest lines. To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.</p> <p>What does it matter that my love could not keep her. The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance.</p> <p>This is all. In the distance the night sings its useless song to the hills. I want to turn toward my soul&rsquo;s half-empty fields and rake together the scraps of my life.</p> <p>All of this is cold, and nothing matters, without love. Tonight I can write the saddest lines of the night.</p>