[00:05.00]I want you to know
[00:05.95]one thing.
[00:08.21]You know how this is:
[00:11.00]if I look
[00:11.55]at the crystal moon, at the red branch
[00:14.66]of the slow autumn at my window,
[00:18.08]if I touch
[00:18.92]near the fire
[00:19.71]the impalpable ash
[00:22.07]or the wrinkled body of the log,
[00:25.21]everything carries me to you,
[00:28.22]as if everything that exists,
[00:30.45]aromas, light, metals,
[00:34.72]were little boats
[00:35.62]that sail
[00:36.27]toward those isles of yours that wait for me.
[00:40.75]Well, now,
[00:42.56]if little by little you stop loving me
[00:45.74]I shall stop loving you little by little.
[00:50.96]If suddenly
[00:51.61]you forget me
[00:53.14]do not look for me,
[00:55.51]for I shall already have forgotten you.
[00:59.77]If you think it long and mad,
[01:01.40]the wind of banners
[01:02.72]that passes through my life,
[01:05.06]and you decide
[01:05.91]to leave me at the shore
[01:07.11]of the heart where I have roots,
[01:09.89]remember
[01:11.89]that on that day,
[01:13.78]at that hour,
[01:15.71]I shall lift my arms
[01:17.86]and my roots will set off
[01:19.34]to seek another land.
[01:22.91]But
[01:25.33]if each day,
[01:27.31]each hour,
[01:29.07]you feel that you are destined for me
[01:31.06]with implacable sweetness,
[01:34.16]if each day a flower
[01:35.48]climbs up to your lips to seek me,
[01:38.78]ah my love, ah my own,
[01:42.78]in me all that fire is repeated,
[01:46.46]in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
[01:50.35]my love feeds on your love, beloved,
[01:54.04]and as long as you live it will be in your arms
[01:58.27]without leaving mine.