Evitamos
todas la calamidades que puedan ocurrir en una esfera más baja persistiendo a
perpetuidad en una más alta
HDT
(Diario
27 de Abril de 1854)
No fuimos hechos a su semejanza
Pero desde el principio creímos en ella
No por puramente
apaciguar el hambre
Sino por su disponibilidad
Podría dirigir nuestra devoción
Más allá de toda duda y sin nuestro consentimiento
Y cualquiera que sea el nombre que le hayamos dado
En el suyo el amor ha sido apartado
Tiempo sin medida le ha sido dedicado
Los bosques han sido borrados y los ríos envenenados
Y la verdad ha sido relegada por conveniencia
Las guerras han sido santificadas por conveniencia
Creemos que tenemos derecho a la conveniencia
Incluso aunque no pertenece a nadie
En cualquier parte llevamos el camino de regreso a la conveniencia
Estamos seguros de que está salvando alguna cosa
La consideramos nuestro salvador personal
Todo lo que tenemos que pagar por ella es nosotros mismos
W. S. Merwin
(traducción Guillermo Ruiz)
We were not
made in its image
but from the beginning we believed in it
not for the pure appeasement of hunger
but for its availability
it could command our devotion
beyond question and without our consent
and by whatever name we have called it
in its name love has been set aside
unmeasured time has been devoted to it
forests have been erased and rivers poisoned
and truth has been relegated for it
wars have been sanctified by it
we believe that we have a right to it
even though it belongs to no one
we carry a way back to it everywhere
we are sure that it is saving something
we consider it our personal savior
all we have to pay for it is ourselves
but from the beginning we believed in it
not for the pure appeasement of hunger
but for its availability
it could command our devotion
beyond question and without our consent
and by whatever name we have called it
in its name love has been set aside
unmeasured time has been devoted to it
forests have been erased and rivers poisoned
and truth has been relegated for it
wars have been sanctified by it
we believe that we have a right to it
even though it belongs to no one
we carry a way back to it everywhere
we are sure that it is saving something
we consider it our personal savior
all we have to pay for it is ourselves
W. S.
Merwin, from his book The Moon Before Morning
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