When I Die I Want Your Hands On My Eyes By Pablo Neruda
WHEN I DIE I WANT YOUR HANDS ON MY EYES – We are going to read the full poem When I Die I Want Your Hands On My Eyes by Pablo Neruda.
As mentioned above, it is written by Pablo Neruda. Neruda was a Chilean poet who was born in 1973.
The speaker of this poem wants his spouse to remember him after he dies. The speaker, however, doesn’t want her to mourn his loss so much that she doesn’t continue living her life, according to Family Friend Poems.
It consists of quatrains and tercets. Quatrains are four-line poems, while tercets are three-line poems.
Here is the full text of the poem uplifted from the said website:
When I die I want your hands on my eyes:
I want the light and the wheat of your beloved hands
to pass their freshness over me one more time
to feel the smoothness that changed my destiny.
I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep,
I want for your ears to go on hearing the wind,
for you to smell the sea that we loved together
and for you to go on walking the sand where we walked.
I want for what I love to go on living
and as for you I loved you and sang you above everything,
for that, go on flowering, flowery one,
so that you reach all that my love orders for you,
so that my shadow passes through your hair,
so that they know by this the reason for my song.
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