Today is ours

Tell me what you want to say today,
For I may not be there tomorrow.

Tell me how you feel about me today-
For that feeling may die tomorrow
Without I ever knowing it
Without we ever experiencing it.

If I am wrong, and if it is all my imagination,
Tell me so in no unclear terms,
so that we can move forward
without causing each other pain.

But, if you feel the same way as I do,
What should stand between us,
Why should we hide it from each other,
For today is ours and tomorrow may not be.

                                                  ~ Bharathi

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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 ( from "If You Forget Me")