Beste hizkuntzetako lanen zerrenda

 

  Translation: Sarah J. Turtle &
    Iņaki Mendiguren

 

 

A simple difficulty

 

Life is no more than a mere difficulty

ever since I fell into the hole of your eyes,

and I know not how to swallow these cherry tears

as I go round and round your pupils.

 

From this lookout I wanted to know

what you see differently, what, apart from me,

was revolving, as the world does,

in the pupils of your eyes.

 

In a blink I could've come out of the waterfall of these eyelashes

but you kept me prisoner behind your closed eyelids.

That's why I know you will no longer see me

as I am.

 

I have swept the questions under the carpet

and have turned the key,

while the world turns on its axis.

 

 

© Leire Bilbao
© of the translation: Sarah J. Turtle & Iņaki Mendiguren

 


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