When I Die I Want Your Hands On My Eyes Poem Text

by Pablo Neruda

When I Die I Want Your Hands On My Eyes Poem Text

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When I Die I Want Your Hands On My Eyes (excerpt)

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.

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