I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You - Poem by Pablo Neruda

I do not love you except because I love you; 

I go from loving to not loving you,

From waiting to not waiting for you,

My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you, the one I love; 

I hate you deeply, and hating you

Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you

Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume

My heart with its cruel Ray, 

stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story, I am the one 

who Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,

Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.