“I ask for permission to be reborn” is a poem that captures the essence of existential reflection, a deep and vibrant song that emerges from the pen of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Through simple but meaningful words, Neruda invites us to a meditation on the cycle of life, on renewal and on the constant presence of love.
In his poetry, Neruda enumerates five fundamental roots of his existence, outlining a life manifesto that unfolds through the seasons of the soul and the world. “Endless love” is placed as the cornerstone of existence, a feeling so essential that it becomes the first root from which everything originates. This is followed by the love of autumn, a song to transience, to change, to falling and being reborn which symbolizes the life cycle.
With the “grave winter” and its rain, Neruda exalts the beauty of melancholy, rest and rebirth, while with summer, evoked as a “round watermelon”, he celebrates the fullness and joy of living. But it is in the “fifth thing”, the eyes of the beloved, that the poet finds his eternal spring, an invitation to witness the continuous becoming of existence.
The poem unfolds in an intimate and universal dialogue, where the apparent farewell is transformed into a celebration of life, a clear refusal to let oneself go into the silence of oblivion. Neruda relies on the vitality of nature and human passion as a means to defeat death, asking for “permission to be born” in a perpetual cycle of rebirth.
Neruda’s evocative power manifests itself in his appeal to collective memory, in recognizing that, despite the inevitability of oblivion, life is an experience of interconnection that transcends the physicality of being. “I ask for permission to be reborn” is not just a poem, but a hymn to the resilience of the soul which, even in the face of final silence, chooses to announce its unstoppable thirst for life.
Overall, “I ask for permission to be reborn” is a majestic work, a mosaic of images and sensations that come together to express Neruda’s profound attachment to life in all its forms. With this poem, the reader is invited to recognize the importance of every single moment, of every little joy, and to reaffirm their right to exist and love without limits.
“I ask permission to be reborn” by Pablo Neruda
“Now, leave me alone.
Now, get used to my absence.
I will close my eyes
and I’ll just say five things,
five favorite roots.
One is endless love.
The second is to see the autumn.
I can’t live without the leaves
let them fly and return to the earth.
The third is the severe winter,
the rain that I loved, the caress
of fire in the wild cold.
The fourth thing is summer
round like a watermelon.
The fifth is your eyes.
I don’t want to sleep without your eyes,
I don’t want to exist without you looking at me:
I change the spring
so that you continue to look at me.
Friends, this is what I want.
It’s almost nothing and it’s almost everything.
Now if you want to leave.
I have lived so much that one day
you will have to forget me,
erase me from the blackboard:
my heart was interminable.
But why do I ask for silence
don’t think I’m dying:
the opposite happens to me:
it happens that I am about to live.
Never heard it so loud,
never had so many kisses.
Now, as always, it’s early.
The light flies with its bees.
Leave me alone with the day.
I ask permission to be born.”
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