Poem: Past by Pablo Neruda
Written by keysinunez.com on 9/25/2006 – 7:30 pm - 1,418 Views Past
- Pablo Neruda
We have to discard the past
and, as one builds
floor by floor, window by window,
and the building rises,
so do we go on throwing down
first, broken tiles,
then pompous doors,
until out of the past
dust rises
as if to crash
against the floor,
smoke rises
as if to catch fire,
and each new day
it gleams
like an empty
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