Tuesday 16 April 2013

Sail (Navega) - León Felipe

Kneel down and pray.
No. Sail,
sail on your tears.

Sailor:
tears,
tears,
tears...
the cloud... the river… the sea.

Let me weave not handkerchiefs
but sails.
Let no one comfort me,
don’t let them wipe away my tears,
don’t let them dry up the river on me.
I cry so that the sea will not die,
my father the sea, the sea
that breaks in the two beaches,
in the two doors without hinges of the world,
with the same old bitter taste
of my tears.
I am the navigator and the path,
the boat and the water…
and the last harbour of the route.

And over there,
beyond the sea…
at the end of my tears
is the island that the navigator searches for.

From Ganarás la luz

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