por eso me volví poeta::that's why I became a poet
Por eso me volví poeta
porque pasa lento el tiempo en soledad.
¿No es apenas un peligroso instante
lo que sostiene nuestra cordura?
¿No depende la locura
de nuestra única, frágil cuerda?
¿No pende ella de un sólo término,
del preciso término,
aquel que nos salva
o nos condena?
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Editorial Eclepsidra, Caracas, Venezuela (2016)
That's why I became a poet
because time passes slow in solitude.
Isn't it just a dangerous moment
that sustains our sanity?
Doesn't madness depend
Of our only, fragile rope?
Doesn't it hang up by a single term,
of the precise term,
the one that saves us
or condemns us?
Martha Kornblith
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Editorial Eclepsidra, Caracas, Venezuela (2016)
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