Pablo Neruda

The Song Of Despair

You swallowed everything, like distance. Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank! It was the happy hour of assault and the kiss. The hour of the spell that blazed like a lighthouse. Pilot's dread, fury of a blind diver, turbulent drunkenness of love, in you everything sank! It is assumed this was excerpted from the original poem found here: http://allpoetry-classic. com/poem/8496957-Song_Of_Despair-by-Pablo_Neruda for inclusion in a short poetry anthology.