from 'emerging'

"and all at once, that's it; we no longer know
what it's all about, but we are deep inside it,
and now we will never see with the same eyes
as once we did when we were children playing.
now these eyes are closed to us,
now our hands emerge from different arms.

and therefore when you sleep, you are alone in your dreaming,
and running freely through the corridors
of one dream only, which belongs to you.
oh never let them come to steal our dreams,
never let them entwine us in our bed.
let us hold on to the shadows
to see if, from our own obscurity,
we emerge and grope along the walls,
lie in wait for the light to capture it,
till, once and for all time,
it becomes our own, the sun of every day."

~Pablo Neruda

Posted by jeff at October 9, 2003 02:10 PM

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