I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You Poem by Pablo Neruda
I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.
I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.
In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.
I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.
In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.
The poet expresses the true love the narrator has for his beloved. But the sad part is that this love is one sided. The narrator is deeply in love with his beloved but sadly his beloved does not love him back.
The first stanza of the poem starts with the description of the love the narrator has for his beloved. He loves her from the very core of his heart, but he is not being loved by her in return. In the second stanza, the narrator is analyzing the reason for why does he love her so deeply. But he is just unable to find out the reason. He just knows that he is in love with her; this love is true and emerges from the core of his heart. There is no reason for this love, it is selfless. He knows that this love causes pain in his heart and wants to change this feeling but as he thinks of doing so, he is just helpless. In the last stanza, the narrator is deeply sad since all his hopes seem shattered. He knows that she will never come back, no matter how much he loves or does not loves her.
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