from Ode about my Sadness

I returned
from
archipelagos,
I returned from jasmine
and deserts
to simply being
simply being
simply being
with other beings,
and when I was no longer a shadow
and no longer on the run,
when I was fully human, I received the freight
of the human heart,
treacherous stones
of envy
and common, fawning ingratitude

--Pablo Neruda