What does the poem If you forget me by Pablo Neruda mean?

Answer 1

this poem is soo goooood ,

 

Answer 2

This poem is a TRUE love poem. Forget all those gushy love poems about "I would die if you were to ever leave me!" This poem is the real hearts thoughts! It's about a man saying, if you stop loving me, I will be hurt, but I eventually will move on and I will stop loving you. If you do not want me, I will be upset but I will sooner or later stop wanting you. But if you decide to love me I will love you forever unconditionally.

I think that is what it really is like. If someone doesn't love you, eventually you cannot help but to move on with your life, but if they love you and you love them, it will last you forever.

Answer 3

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