for get pushed this week
@fernandocrespo challenged me to shoot something inspired by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer's poem "The Dark Swallows Will Return"
i'm afraid i am a complete philistine when it comes to poetry... a number of google hits suggest the poem is about love... but to me it reads more about change and loss... feel free to draw your own conclusions and educate me ;p
The Dark Swallows Will Return
-- by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
The dark swallows will return
to your balcony to hang their nests
and, once again, with a wing to its glass
playing, they'll call;
but those that held back their flight
when contemplating your beauty and my bliss,
those that learned our names...
those... will not return!
The dense honeysuckle will return
to your garden to climb its walls,
and, once again, in the evening, even more beautiful,
its flowers will bloom;
but those, studded with dew,
whose drops we watched tremble
and fall, like the tears of the day...
those... will not return!
From love, to your ears will return
the ardent words to sound;
your heart, from its deep sleep
perhaps will awaken;
but mute and engrossed and on its knees
as God is adored before his altar,
as I have loved you..., undeceive yourself:
Like this, no one else will love you!
Your image is awesome..