you can listen to this poem being read by Madonna with a musical score from The Postman/II Postino in the background composed by Luis Bacalov! It is an absolutely gorgeous composition ~ Enjoy!
If you forget me
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
Ahh my love, ahh 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.
What did you think of it?
Obviously a love story; and working to keep the passion in a relationship alive. This poem emphasizes that passion is needed to fuel love, and love feeds on love. It is a very intricate poem and can be interpreted in so many ways, ya think?
