This is my favourite poem by Dutch poet Hans Andreus. Here’s the English translation:
For a day of tomorrow
If I die tomorrow,
Tell the trees
How much I loved you.
Tell the wind,
That climbs the towers
Or falls from the branches,
How much I loved you.
Tell it to a child
That is young enough to understand it.
Tell it to an animal,
Perhaps only by just looking at it.
Tell it to the stone houses,
Tell it to the city
How much I loved you.
But don’t tell any person,
They wouldn’t believe you.
They wouldn’t want to believe that
Just a man
Just a woman
That a person loved another person so much
Like I loved you.
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