Beyond Forgetting

By: Rolando Carbonell

For a moment I thought I could forget you.

For a moment I thought I could still the restlessness in my heart.
I though the past could no longer haunt me nor hurt me.
How wrong I was!
For the past, no matter how distant, is as much a part of me as life itself.
And you are part of that life. You are so much a part of me of my dreams, my early hopes, my youth and my ambitions that in all tasks I cant help
remembering you.
Many little delights and things remind me of you. Yes, I came. And would my pride mock my real feelings? Would the love song, the sweet and lovely smile
on your face, be lost among the deepening shadows?
I have wanted to be alone. I thought I could make myself forget you In silence and in song And yet I remembered.
For who could forget the memory of the once lovely, the once beautiful, the once happy world such as ours?
I came because the song that I kept through the years is waiting to be sung. I cannot sing it without you. The song when sung alone will lose the essence of
its tune, because you and I had been one.
I have wanted this misery to end, because it is part of my restlessness. Cant you understand? Cant you divine the depth and tenderness of my feelings
towards you?
Yes, cant you see how I suffer in this even darkness without you?
You went away because you mistook my silence for indifference. But silence, my dear, is the language of my heart.
How could I essay the intensity of my love when silence speaks a more eloquent tone? But perhaps, you didnt understand
Remember, I came, because the gnawing loneliness is there and will be lost until the music is sung, until the poem is heard, until the silence is understood
until you come to me again.
For you alone can blend music and memory into one consuming ecstasy. You alone

Beyond Forgetting
By: Rolando Carbonell

For a moment I thought I could forget you.

For a moment I thought I could still the restlessness in my heart.
I though the past could no longer haunt me nor hurt me.
How wrong I was!
For the past, no matter how distant, is as much a part of me as life itself.

And you are part of that life. You are so much a part of me of my dreams, my early hopes, my youth and my ambitions that in all tasks I cant help
remembering you.
Many little delights and things remind me of you. Yes, I came. And would my pride mock my real feelings? Would the love song, the sweet and lovely smile
on your face, be lost among the deepening shadows?
I have wanted to be alone. I thought I could make myself forget you In silence and in song And yet I remembered.
For who could forget the memory of the once lovely, the once beautiful, the once happy world such as ours?
I came because the song that I kept through the years is waiting to be sung. I cannot sing it without you. The song when sung alone will lose the essence of
its tune, because you and I had been one.
I have wanted this misery to end, because it is part of my restlessness. Cant you understand? Cant you divine the depth and tenderness of my feelings
towards you?
Yes, cant you see how I suffer in this even darkness without you?
You went away because you mistook my silence for indifference. But silence, my dear, is the language of my heart.
How could I essay the intensity of my love when silence speaks a more eloquent tone? But perhaps, you didnt understand
Remember, I came, because the gnawing loneliness is there and will be lost until the music is sung, until the poem is heard, until the silence is understood
until you come to me again.
For you alone can blend music and memory into one consuming ecstasy. You alone

Beyond Forgetting
By: Rolando Carbonell

For a moment I thought I could forget you.

For a moment I thought I could still the restlessness in my heart.
I though the past could no longer haunt me nor hurt me.
How wrong I was!
For the past, no matter how distant, is as much a part of me as life itself.
And you are part of that life. You are so much a part of me of my dreams, my early hopes, my youth and my ambitions that in all tasks I cant help
remembering you.
Many little delights and things remind me of you. Yes, I came. And would my pride mock my real feelings? Would the love song, the sweet and lovely smile
on your face, be lost among the deepening shadows?
I have wanted to be alone. I thought I could make myself forget you In silence and in song And yet I remembered.
For who could forget the memory of the once lovely, the once beautiful, the once happy world such as ours?
I came because the song that I kept through the years is waiting to be sung. I cannot sing it without you. The song when sung alone will lose the essence of
its tune, because you and I had been one.
I have wanted this misery to end, because it is part of my restlessness. Cant you understand? Cant you divine the depth and tenderness of my feelings
towards you?
Yes, cant you see how I suffer in this even darkness without you?
You went away because you mistook my silence for indifference. But silence, my dear, is the language of my heart.

How could I essay the intensity of my love when silence speaks a more eloquent tone? But perhaps, you didnt understand
Remember, I came, because the gnawing loneliness is there and will be lost until the music is sung, until the poem is heard, until the silence is understood
until you come to me again.
For you alone can blend music and memory into one consuming ecstasy. You alone