TO LIVE

I feel
that my life flows
like a slow
river,
that it has
neither beginning
nor end,
as if ever
I were born
nor could exist
without boundary
On earth
runs my life,
so mixed
the living of humans;
and the resounding
of remote echoes
and mysterious voices.
Sometimes I feel passing,
as a secret current,
the mute beat
of the universe.

ALAÍDE FOPPA, Guatemala (1914 – 1980)
Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt – Stanley Barkan
De “Poesía soy yo”, Poetas en español del siglo XX
Raquel Lanseros Y Ana Merino, Collección Visor de Poesía