If You Forget Me

written by Pablo Neruda, reading by Madonna
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I want you to know one thing
You know how this is. . .

If I look at the crystal moon,
At the red branch of the slow autumn at my window
If I touch near the fire the impemprable ash, or the wrinkled body of the log
Everything carries me to you. . .
As if everything that exists - aromas, light, metals. . .
Were little boats that said toward those isles of yours that wait for me. . .

Well, now. . .
If little by little you stop loving me,
I shall stop loving you. . .
little by little. . .
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me. . .
For I shall already have forgotten you. . .

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots. . .
Remember. . .
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms. . .
And my roots will set off to seek another land. . .

But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness. . .
If each day a flower climbs up your lips to seek me. . .
ahh my love, ahh my own, in me all that fire is repeated. . .
In me nothing is extinguished or forgotten. . .
My love feeds on your love, beloved.
And as long as you live, it will be in your arms without leaving mine. . .

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