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ESCHATOLOGY: ON LOVE AND DEATH

Amor mío, si muero y tú no mueres, [...]
Pudimos no encontrarnos en el tiempo. 
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También veo las muertes que est‡n entre nosotros [...] 
Y respiro en el aire la ceniza y lo destruido 
Pablo Neruda 

--Por N, como siempre--

My love, in these bygone times, gone
For good i must remember, if you die before me,
You must remember, if i die before you, how green,
Deep, broad, was the valley & love we lived
   INTERVAL
Together, often apart, never disjoined. Meandering,
Waters & winds of our Earth took us thru sunshines
& black thunders, shook yet did not break us:
We could have failed to meet in the time.

Soon we shall perfect our deaths and dying, no regrets,
Leave this little enchafed heart-break island
Our yapping hearts shall abandon, not retract,
Unreconciled mustangs of galloping dreams, lover of mine,

Black-haired mountaineer of devotion borne
To death, like me, upon the Black Mountain.

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  Darko R. Suvin