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| Fotografía "Remolino", de Iván Lello, en San Pedro de Atacama |
“De tanto mirar, te has hecho incapaz para toda historia.
Por el silencio, estropeado para toda compañía.”
B O N U S T R A C K
CANCIÓN DE LA INFANCIA
Cuando el niño era niño
andaba con los brazos colgando,
quería que el arroyo fuera un río,
que el río fuera un torrente
y que este charco fuera el mar.
Cuando el niño era niño
no sabía que era niño para él todo estaba animado
y todas las almas eran una.
Cuando el niño era niño
no tenía opinión sobre nada,
no tenía ninguna costumbre
se sentaba en cuclillas,
tenía un remolino en el cabello
y no ponía caras cuando lo fotografiaban.
Cuando el niño era niño
era el tiempo de preguntas como:
¿Por qué estoy aquí?
¿Por qué no allí?
¿Cuando empezó el tiempo y dónde termina el espacio?
¿Acaso la vida bajo el sol no es sólo un sueño?
Lo que veo oigo y huelo,
¿no es sólo la apariencia de un mundo ante el mundo?
¿Existe de verdad el mal
y gente que en verdad son los malos?
¿Cómo puede ser que yo, el que yo soy,
no fuera antes de devenir; y que un día yo,
el que yo soy, no seré más ese que soy?
SONG OF CHILDHOOD
When the child was a child
It walked with its arms swinging,
wanted the brook to be a river,
the river to be a torrent,
and this puddle to be the sea.
When the child was a child,
it didn’t know that it was a child,
everything was soulful,
and all souls were one.
When the child was a child,
it had no opinion about anything,
had no habits,
it often sat cross-legged,
took off running,
had a cowlick in its hair,
and made no faces when photographed.
When the child was a child,
It was the time for these questions:
Why am I me, and why not you?
Why am I here, and why not there?
When did time begin, and where does space end?
Is life under the sun not just a dream?
Is what I see and hear and smell
not just an illusion of a world before the world?
Given the facts of evil and people.
does evil really exist?
How can it be that I, who I am,
didn’t exist before I came to be,
and that, someday, I, who I am,
will no longer be who I am?
When the child was a child,
It choked on spinach, on peas, on rice pudding,
and on steamed cauliflower,
and eats all of those now, and not just because it has to.
When the child was a child,
it awoke once in a strange bed,
and now does so again and again.
Many people, then, seemed beautiful,
and now only a few do, by sheer luck.
It had visualized a clear image of Paradise,
and now can at most guess,
could not conceive of nothingness,
and shudders today at the thought.
When the child was a child,
It played with enthusiasm,
and, now, has just as much excitement as then,
but only when it concerns its work.
When the child was a child,
It was enough for it to eat an apple, … bread,
And so it is even now.
When the child was a child,
Berries filled its hand as only berries do,
and do even now,
Fresh walnuts made its tongue raw,
and do even now,
it had, on every mountaintop,
the longing for a higher mountain yet,
and in every city,
the longing for an even greater city,
and that is still so,
It reached for cherries in topmost branches of trees
with an elation it still has today,
has a shyness in front of strangers,
and has that even now.
It awaited the first snow,
And waits that way even now.
When the child was a child,
It threw a stick like a lance against a tree,
And it quivers there still today.
(Griffen, Austria, 1942)
POETA/DRAMATURGO/GUIONISTA/DIRECTOR DE CINE
en WIKIPEDIA
POETA/DRAMATURGO/GUIONISTA/DIRECTOR DE CINE
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