Fear envelops bones like new skin, envelops blood with night’s skin, the earth moves beneath the soles of the feet -it is not your hair but the terror in your head, like long hair made of vertical nails, and what you see are not shattered streets, but rather, within you, your own crushed walls, your frustrated infinity, again the city comes crashing down: in your silence, only water’s threats heard, and in the water drowned horses gallop through your death.

Pablo Neruda

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

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