WHITE HONEYBEE song lyrics NERUDA 8
by Joel Sattler

[based on the eighth poem in 20 LOVE POEMS
by Pablo Neruda]

white honeybee buzz in my soul
twisting in slow spiral smoke

I, desperado, the echoless call
who lost it all, who had it all

my last lifeline creaks in despair
the desert: you're the last rose there

o so silent

there is a silence beyond silence
where sound falls in a hole so black
silent silence beyond silence
where words are never coming back

close up the night in your deep eyes
make bare your body in disguise

deep eyes where the nightime goes
fresh flowers lap envelop rose

white breasts like little nautilus
dark butterfly sleeps in your guts

o so silent

and here you are absent, you are null
the raining hunts the lost seagulls

barefoot water walks wet streets again
in the trees, the leaves complain of the rain

white bee gone but her buzzing remains
you live again, so silent and plain

o so silent

there is a silence beyond silence
where sound falls in a hole so black
silent silence beyond silence
where words are never coming back


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