PERSEUS

PERSEUS

 

          

What love have you known like mine?

Tall, resembling the sun,

A Love that enslaves Kerr, the black girl

And the magnanimous Persephone?

What love, Andromeda

Has surpassed the splendid Pegasus,

Defeated Calibos,

And Kraken the monster, son of the ocean?

What love Andromeda

What vast love, maiden from Ethiopia,

Daring like mine

Naked like the river of death?

What love, daughter of Cassiopeia,

A love that defeats Gorgona,

That accomplishes Mercury's favors

To engrave in the nuptial chamber

The holocaust where our sexes melt?

What love Andromeda

Clean, vibrating,

Beautiful like Athena, the one with clear eyes?

What love as ample as this

As clear and illustrious as mine

So close to the roots of the earth?

What love Andromeda?

No man is able to rise against it,

Emulate it,

No one is able to love like the one who inherits throne;

No one, my lovely Andromeda

Will risk loosing his power for a kiss,

Resigned to defeat for a single night with you.

 

Winston Morales Chavarro

Translation: Luis Rafael Gálvez