Prologue!
I confess that I am still involved up to the neck in the uprising in Iran and try to help by translating their demands (mainly on Twitter because they are very active there) into English and German to show the world what injustice is happening there. I am suffering to see how these brave children and youths are fighting for a right which obviously is the fundamental right of every human, and so many have lost their life.
I didn’t choose this poem to express something negative. I think that Pablo Neruda has always been a freedom seeker and a protector of human rights all in his life. Here, with his wise and beautiful poem on death, he wants to explain the proper righteousness for humanity and that this fight will be reborn and never end after death. And with this, I will send my prayers to all dear young women and men and children in Iran, alive or sacrificed; justice shall overcome in the end.
Death
The Death
of Pablo Neruda
I have been reborn many times from the depths
of vanished stars, rebuilding the thread of eternity that I spun with my hands,
and now I go to die, with nothing more,
with dirt on my body, destined to it is soil.
I did not buy a plot of heaven sold by priests
nor accept the darkness that the metaphysician made for the careless strong
I want to be in death with the poor who had no time to study it,
while they were beaten by those, who had divided and arranged the sky.
I have my death ready like a costume waiting for me,
of the colour I love
To the extent that I sought,
and from the depth that I need.
When love is spent on the obvious matter
and the struggle weakens the hammers
On the other hand, armed force
, death comes to erase the signs
that built your borders.
Freedom soon will come, and we come from the shadow. 💖✌✊
Image credit: joseph-art “Time Goes by Like Water”.
source: https://www.thmmy.gr / https://searchingthemeaningoflife.wordpress.com/2021/07/03/pablo-neruda-death/ http://SearchingTheMeaningOfLife
lampmagician 
Reblogging your post. Thank you for all that you are doing to amplify the voices of protestors in Iran.
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Thank you back. You are highly appreciated. 💖🙏🥰
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This is a beautiful, heartfelt poem by Neruda. I loved it and found myself relating deeply! Thank you so much Aladin for sharing your beautiful heart and this beautiful art with us today. It sounds like what you’re doing on Twitter is helping many see and hear the devastating truth of what is happening in Iran today. I have always known that your duty is first and foremost to your soul and for humanity. Trying to put your country right is important work. Love and light, Deborah.
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It is hard and sad to see what is going on there, though I try my best to help. Thank you, my dear Deborah, for your warm words and support. 🙏💖
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You do indeed have a beautiful heart and soul and such love for your country. And I can see why you have chosen this poem. For me it is the work of a freedom fighter and respecter of all humanity’s rights.
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You have got the point, my beautiful Lady. This is a constant fight for us all, and Neruda knew that. Thank you for your kind and encouraging words. xxxxxxxxxxx
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All love to you. A horrible time for those who love their country, for those in that country and for that country xxxxxxxx
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Beautiful poem and song!
I understand and share your concerns about Iran💙💙💙
In Dante’s Divina Commedia there are these lines:
“libertà, va cercando, ch’è sì cara, come sa chi per lei vita rifiuta/.he goes in search of liberty—so precious, as he who gives his life for it must know.”
These are the words addressed by Virgil to Cato Uticense to introduce Dante to him as a “seeker of freedom”; the following ones (as he who gives his life for it must know.)refer to the suicide of Cato.
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Wow! How beautiful and wise. I read Dante’s Divine Comedy many years ago, and you reminded me of how great literature is. I think we are all seekers of freedom and must keep going. Molte grazie, mia cara Amica. 🤗🙏💖😘🥰
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“We are all seekers of freedom and must keep going.” How true!
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A heartfelt post, Alaedin. Iran is in the clutches of evil, for lack of better words. It’s sickening to see how their leaders are ignoring the people, and just slaughtering. I hope the people win. How can fundamental religion be a religion when the leaders of that religion kill their own?
I see you are doing what you can. I am with you!
The poem is beautiful, in its way!
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Thank you wholeheartedly, my dear Resa. You are so right; it compares the middle ages and the executions! But anyway, your words fulfil my heart. We can only hope that justice will win soon for these young people. 🙏💖
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Yes! 🙏💖
I saw today on the news that the Iranian soccer team did not sing their anthem. 🙏💖
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Yes, but they didn’t have to participate in this match at all! In Iran (especially Kurdistan province) is happening a massacre. I hope they lose all the plays! However, I thank you for your care. Love to you. 💖💖🙏
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Love to you too!
About the team…Too little too late!
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Gosh, what a beautiful poem and song, Aladin. I think most of us find it hard to think on these things that you look at so clear-eyed. Thank you for being our conscience. xox
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Wow! Thanks a lot for such honours you’re giving me, my dear lady Pam. You are highly appreciated. 🙏🤗💖
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🙏💕👏😘
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