If You Forget Me

"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 impalpable 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 sail
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 to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah 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."

Pablo Neruda


“If a man allows his strong interest in the main chance to be side tracked, he will be a looser.
Mental force operates best when it is concentrated. You must give to the desired thing your best and most earnest thought.

Just as a man who is thoroughly in love will think out plans and schemes whereby he may please the fair one, so will the man who is in love with his work or business give it his best thought, and the result will be that a hundred and one plans will come into his field of consciousness.

Many of which are very important. The mind works on the subconscious plane, remember, and almost always along the line of passion or desire.
It will fix up things, and patch together plans and schemes, and when you need them the most it will pop them into your consciousness, and you will feel like hurrahing, just as if you had received some valuable aid from outside. “ W. W. A. 1906.

In simple terms…

When we are in love that is the time when we are most connected to our essence, our inner selves.

When we learn to be in love with everything, even with the things, which are sometimes not to our liking we become masters of our own lives…

Note:
The pictures are the photos I took at the Arab Organisations Headquarters Building Kuwait on 13th May 2004.
Which is… “One of the most exciting examples of innovative architecture to emerge in Kuwait. Completed in 1994, it is a home to four major Arab Organisations: the Arab Fund for Social and Economic Development, OAPEC (Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries) the Inter- Arab Investment Guarantee Corporation and the Arab Maritime Petroleum Transport Company.”

http://www.arabfund.org/AOHQ/kuwait.htm