Poem - "The Dead Woman" by Pablo Neruda

"The Dead Woman" 
by Pablo Neruda

If suddenly you do not exist,

if suddenly you are not living,
I shall go on living.

I do not dare,

I do not dare to write it,
if you die.

I shall go on living.
Because where a man has no voice,

there, my voice
Where blacks are beaten,

I can not be dead.
When my brothers go to jail
I shall go with them.

When victory,

not my victory,
but the great victory
arrives,
even though I am mute I must speak:
I shall see it come even though I am blind.

No, forgive me,

if you are not living,
ifd you, beloved, my love,
if you