Looking for an emotional wedding reading? Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda is the perfect poem for a wedding...
- "I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
- or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
- I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
- in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
- I love you as the plant that never blooms
- but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
- thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
- risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
- I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
- I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
- so I love you because I know no other way
- than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
- so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
- so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.