I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness. (Pablo Neruda)

I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.

Pablo Neruda

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