If you forget me - Neruda

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

我要你知道一件事。

这是你懂得的：
如果我

透过我的窗口，注视那水晶的月亮，

在缓慢的秋天和红色的树枝旁；
如果我触摸

那火焰
似有似无的灰烬
或者那层层褶皱的木柴
所有这些都把我带向你
仿佛那存在的一切，
金属，芬芳，光亮，
都是小船
向着
你在等我的，那些属于你的岛屿航行。

好了，现在
假如你渐渐停止爱我
我也会一点点停止爱你。

如果你
突然忘记我
别来找我，
因为我将早已把你忘怀。

如果你认为那穿过我生活
的猎猎疾风
漫长而疯狂，
如果你决定
在我已经扎根的

心的堤岸上离开我
记住
在那一天，
在那个时刻，
我将抬起我的手臂
而我的根也将动身
去寻找另一片土地。

可是
如果在每一天，
在每个时刻，
你感觉你是我注定的
不安宁的甜蜜
如果每一天都有一朵花
为寻找我而攀上你的红唇
啊，我的爱，我的心，
所有的火焰都将不灭的燃烧，

不灭，不忘记 -
我的爱源于你的爱，亲爱的人，
情长今生

不离开你我的臂弯