How fortunate to have been born
Fortunate, how fortunate to have been born
to hold a friend's hand
and be witness to the
miracle of each dawn.
How fortunate to have been born,
to have the option to chose,
to weigh defeat and hope
against glory and the fear to fail.
How fortunate to have been born,
to understand that honesty and perversity,
despite their contrast,
equality share this Universe.
How fortunate to have been born,
to keep quiet when someone wiser speaks,
to listen, is the key to learn
when one intends to understand.
How fortunate to have been born,
stating this without false pretenses,
a total victory in that of being or not being,
in asserting oneself.
How fortunate to have been born
to sing to the people and to the rose,
to the dog and to love and, any other things
to which feelings may attach.
How fortunate to have been born
to have access to fortune,
to be river instead of lake,
to be the rain instead of watching rain.
How fortunate to have been born,
to be consciously bitting into the apple,
without the ancestral fear of the cloth
nor, Lucifer's final revenge.
Yes, how fortunate to have been born,
but, I know, I know well...
one day I also will die.
And I if I live now happy with my lot,
God knows what I'll think while dying,
never been in that trance,
I don't know what balance I'll hold in that anguish.
But, I know, I know well
that on the final leg of the journey
I will hear ambiguous ringing of bells
bidding my farewell,
and another day, another voice like myself,
with another accent,
will be singing to the four winds...
Translated from Spanish by moi
Saturday, September 12, 2009
4 comments:
Hola guapa...
encantado del reencuentro contigo (y tantos otros) otra vez.
El verano fantastico, Asia sigue siendo el lugar más amable del mundo. Y su luz, la más diurna.
Por cierto, el enlace de "La amante" me ha encantado. Preciosa, precisa, la exactitud del lenguaje. Gracias.
Gracias también al poema traducido. Es un regalo que gente como tú se salte las barreras de los idiomas, para acercar los sueños de las personas. Gracias de nuevo.
Por todo, Angel.
Besos miles!
Hola nomada!
que lindo verte/leerte, saber que estas bien
que placer el nomadear tuyo!
el poema es un castellano, lo he oido recitado por un cantante (no recuerdo su nombre en la www.megaromantica.com)
con respecto a la amante - definitivamante debo estar perdiemdome algo!
Abrazote y besos
Oh, dear Alicia
This is truly beautiful and it speaks directly to my heart!
Wonderful writing, my friend.
Margie
xxx
thanks Margie
♡
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