APOLLO

Apollo

 

Come beloved Daphne

Let us go through life and through the woods

Like two suns wounded by enthusiasm.

 

Let us go

Let's celebrate ourselves in the prison of the demonic

 

In the deliberate indigence of love.

 

 Time is short

The night rushing like lightning

 

Filigrees its sentence

 

Recovers its daggers in the declinations of symmetry
 

In the archetypes and quibbles of the correspondences.

 

 

Come, beloved Daphne,

 

Let us go through life

 

Before the kiss of death is born in our lips,

 

Before the ire of the gods turns and twists

 

 In the leaves of the Laurel and the wines

 

 

Let us go

Let us play at being Achaeans and Trojans

Discarding all the things they built

Let us breathe deep, knowing ourselves so tall,

 

So beautiful and crazy like water,

 

Like the wind and the night that passes through the sexes

 

Of those who love each other tenderly

 

Come, daughter of Peneus

 

Let us go through the labyrinths of shadows;

 

Let's love each other ‘til our arms

Fall exhausted before the sun,

 

Before the bark and the endless clamor of twilight

Winston Morales Chavarro

 

 Translation: Luis Rafael Gálvez