"If you forget me" is a poem by chilean poet Pablo Neruda. About love and loss, moving on and getting on, I decided to make a motion poem to capture all the vibrancies and futility that comes with an emotional connection. The color palette is bold and the sounds are soft and airy, creating an experience that captures how beautiful but so easily lost loving someone can be.
 
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📚If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.

✍ Pablo Neruda
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📚 اگر فراموشم کنی

می خواهم فقط یک چیز را بدانی
به من بگو چگونه ممکن است که
کریستال ماه و آن در شاخه قرمز را نگاه کنم؟
و پاییز را که آهسته در پنجره من وارد می شود
چگونه خواهد بود که نزدیک آتش بنشینم
خاکستر غیر قابل نفوذ را را لمس کنم؟
تا آن هنگام که بدنم از ورود آتش گُر بگیرد
من همه چیز خودم را به تو هدیه می کنم
همه چیزهایی دارم مثل
عطر، نور، فلزات و…
همه این ها مانند قایق های کوچکی هستند
که بادبان
آنها را به سوی جزایری می برد که آنجا تو منتظر من هستی
خوب، حالا،
اگر کمی مرا دوست داری
من نیز تو را کمی دوست خواهم داشت
و اگر ناگهان
تو مرا فراموش کردی
دنبال من نگرد
چون من قبلا تو را فراموش کرده ام
آیا فکر می کنی که من دیوانه هستم؟
نسیمی که از زندگی من می گذرد به سوی تو می آید
و تو می توانی تصمیم بگیری
که مرا در ساحل ترک کنی
یا اینکه در قلب من باقی بمانی
به یاد بیاور که
هر روز
در همان ساعت خاص
دستانم را بالا می برم
و اعماقم خالی می شود
برای جستجوی تو در جایی دیگر
ولی
اگر هر روز
هر ساعت
با شیرینی نافذ به طرف من بیایی
اگر هر روز یک گل باشد
صعود به لب تو به دنبال من است
آه ای عشق من، آه ای که مال من هستی
در تمام این آتش ها تکرار می شوی
در من هیچ چیز خسته یا فراموش نشده است
عشق من از عشق تو سرچشمه می گیرد، عزیزم،
و تا زمانی که تو زندگی می کنی این عشق در قلب من خواهد بود
و عشق تو مرا ترک نخواهد کرد.

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📝 Analysis

💭If You Forget Me is a poem comprised of six stanzas of varying length. The poem is written in free verse, as the lines are unrhymed.

💭Something interesting to note is the fact that the first stanza, which is only one line, reading, “I want you to know one thing,” seems to be a continuation of the title. Therefore, it can be read as a single thought: “If you forget me, I want you to know one thing.” Reading the poem like this lends a threatening tone to the work. The tone swiftly changes in the second stanza, where Neruda explains the depth of his love directly to his mistress, writing in the first line, “You know how this is.” Neruda’s diction is quite beautiful in this stanza, referring to the “crystal moon” and “red branch” in line 5. He conjures up his senses of sight and touch, telling his lover that whatever he sees or touches will inevitably carry him back to her.

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💭This poem reminds us of what love and separation feel like. In the poem, Neruda presents a loving and romantic picture of his lover, emphasizing how much he loves her and how everything he does brings him closer to her. Perhaps, this poem is a reminder that a relationship is cherished because of love and the importance of one to another. The moment one feels ignored, the relationship starts to suffer. 

💭Something interesting to note is the fact that the first stanza, which is only one line, reading, “I want you to know one thing,” seems to be a continuation of the title. Therefore, it can be read as a single thought: “If you forget me, I want you to know one thing.” Reading the poem like this lends a threatening tone to the work. The tone swiftly changes in the second stanza, where Neruda explains the depth of his love directly to his mistress, writing in the first line, “You know how this is.” Neruda’s diction is quite beautiful in this stanza, referring to the “crystal moon” and “red branch” in line 5. He conjures up his senses of sight and touch, telling his lover that whatever he sees or touches will inevitably carry him back to her.

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🔹Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda, was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. 

🔹پابلو نرودا شاعر و دیپلمات اهل شیلی بوده است. پابلو نرودا نامی است که وی از نام شاعری اهل چک اخذ کرده است. نامی که والدین پابلو نرودا برای او گذاشته بوده اند، ریکاردو الیسر نفتالی ریس باسوآلت است. نرودا مانند بسیاری از نویسنده‌ها و شاعران از بچگی به نوشتن و واژه‌ها علاقه‌ی ویژه‌ای داشت.
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هر کسی سزاوار فرصتی دیگر است،
اما نه برای همان اشــــــــــتـــــــــبـــــــاهــــــــ...!
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📗 خشم و هیاهو
✍ ویلیام فاکنر

🎧 Enrique Iglesias-
🎼 Hero

Let me be your hero
بذار من قهرمانت باشم
🩷 Would you dance
if I asked you to dance?
Would you run and
never look back?
Would you cry
if you saw me crying?
Would you save my soul tonight?
اگر ازت بخوام برقصى، ميرقصى؟
حاضرى بدوى و هرگز به عقب نگاه نكنى؟
اگه منو گريان ببينى، گريه ميكنى؟
ميشه امشب روح منو نجات بدى؟

💜 Would you tremble
if I touched your lips?
Would you laugh?
Oh, please tell me this.
Now would you die
for the one you love?
Hold me in your arms, tonight.
اگه لبهات رو لمس كنم، ميلرزى ؟
ميشه بخندى؟ لطفا بهم بگو
حاضرى براى اونى كه عاشقش هستى بميرى؟
منو امشب در آغوش بگير

🤍 I can be your hero, baby.
I can kiss away the pain.
I will stand by you forever.
You can take my breath away.
عزيزم، من ميتونم قهرمان تو باشم
ميتونم با يه بوسه غم و درد رو ازت دور كنم
تا ابد كنارت ميمونم
تو كارى ميكنى نفسم از عشق ببره

🩶 Would you swear that
you'll always be mine?
Would you lie?
Would you run and hide?
Am I in too deep?
Have I lost my mind?
I don't care. You're here tonight.
ميشه قسم بخورى كه تا هميشه مال منى؟
ميشه حتى به دروغ بگى؟
ميشه فرار كنى و قايم بشى
من زيادى تو اين عشق عميق شدم؟
عقلم رو از دست دادم؟
برام مهم نيست، امشب تو كنارمی

🩷 Oh, I just want to hold you.
I just want to hold you, oh, yeah.
Am I in too deep?
Have I lost my mind?
Well, I don't care. You're here tonight.

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