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Mi tradversión de un poema que le gusta:

Entre irse y quedarse

The day hesitates between departing or staying
In love with his own transparence

The circling afternoon is now ashore:
Swings the world on her cradle.

All is visible and yet elusive,
All is close and yet untouchable.

Papers, books, glass and pencil
Rest in the shadows of their names.

The beats of time against my forehead
Repeat the same old bloody syllable.

Light turns the wall’s indifference
Into a theatre of specters and reflections

I find myself on the eye`s center;
It does not look at me, I look at myself on its eyes.

Instant disperses. I stand still,
I, stay and leave, am a pause.

Octavio Paz