la búsqueda::the search

 La búsqueda

Nunca encontramos el Graal.

Los relatos no eran verídicos.

Sólo la fatiga de los caminos acompañó a los que se aventuraron,

pero se esperaban historias,

¿qué sería nuestro vivir 

sin ellas?

Nada se resolvió,

hubiéramos podido quedarnos en casa.

Es que somos tan inquietos.

Sin embargo, concluído el viaje

sentimos que en nosotros

-ya no rehenes

de la esperanza-

había nacido

otro temple.

Rafael Cadenas

Selected Poems

bid & co. editor, Caracas, Venezuela (2009)

 The search

We never found the Grail.

The tales were not true.

Only road weariness accompanied those who took the risk

but expected stories.

What would our life be

without them?

Nothing was solved,

we could have stayed at home.

It's that we're so restless.

Nevertheless, when the journey was over

we felt that in us

-no longer hostages

to hope-

a new temper

had been born.

Rafael Cadenas

Selected Poems

Translated by Rowena Hill

bid & co. editor, Caracas, Venezuela (2009)