I SAY GOODBYE, LOVE


I say goodbye, love, and I'm not sad.
Thank you, my love, so now you have given me,
one slow and prolonged kiss
pain that was truncated when you left.

Knew not understand, did not understand
it was a final, desperate love,
and tried to tear on your side
Hard heart when you hurt me.

I cried so much that day I do not want
think the same suffering I hope
every time in your life reappears

that love that you deny lights.
Your light is it when my light decreases,
you just love when my love declines.

Author of the poem: Rafael Alberti