Mi traducción de dos poemas de Benedetti

Utopias

How am I to believe / inquired John Doe
That utopias are long gone

How am I to believe
That hope’s oblivion
That pleasure’s woe

How am I to believe / inquired John Doe
That universe is a shipwreck
yet it is
That death is silence
yet it is

How am I to believe
That horizon’s frontier
That ocean’s nobody
That night’s nothing

How am I to believe / inquired John Doe
That your body / Jane Doe
Is nothing more but what I touch
And that this love
Your remote love addressed to me
Is not your eyes` nudity
your hands` parsimony

How am I to believe / Jane Doe from dawn
That you’re only what I gaze at,
What I caress I seek I penetrate

How am I to believe / inquired John Doe
That utopias are no more
If it’s you / my darling daring
eternal Jane Doe
You are my utopia

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Jane Doe, if you ever leave me…

Jane Doe if you left me for another man
I / John Doe / would not kill myself
Only, would I follow you through night
Through all paths and routes, and dunes
You in laughter and I perhaps in pain
Till you’re in pain and I in laughter
When the footprints that I chase aren’t
Two big ones and two small ones
But barely your sweet little footprints
And then would I appear by your side
And you / with that guilt that makes you
Even prettier / would forgive yourself
To cry as always on my shoulder