Still Another Day: 1 Pablo Neruda

Today is that day, the day that carried
A desperate light that since has died
Don't let the squatters know:
Let’s keep it all between us
Day, between your bell
And my secret

Today is dead winter in the forgotten land
That comes to visit me, with a cross on the map
And a volcano in the snow, to return to me
To return again the water
Fallen on the roof of my childhood
Today when the sun began with its shafts
To tell the story, so clear, so old
The slanting rain fell like a sword
The rain my hard heart welcomes

You, my love, still asleep in August
My queen, my woman, my vastness, my geography
Kiss of mud, the carbon-coated zither
You, vestment of my persistent song
Today you are reborn again and with the sky’s
Black water confuse me and compel me:
I must renew my bones in your kingdom
I must still uncloud my earthly duties