Have you seen the movie The Postman? No no not the one starring Kevin Costner but the other one also titled Il Postino.

It is a romantic comedy about a poor and uneducated fisherman who learns to love poetry through the famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda who helps him win the heart of the woman he loves. It is a nice movie and I was able to rent a copy from ACA Video a few years ago.

Also check out the soundtrack which probably got famous because of Neruda’s poetry being read by celebrities like Julia Roberts, Andy Garcia and Sting but I also like the film score. The music of Luis Enrique Bacalov is really excellent. I looked for it everywhere and it took me weeks to find a copy of the CD and I’m so glad I did!

Anyway, I got those few lines on the sidebar of my blog below my photo from the soundtrack. It’s a spanish poem by Pablo Neruda titled “Si Tu Me Olvidas” and the english version on the soundtrack, “If You Forget Me,” was read by Madonna.

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 loveing 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.

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