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Poem

Fernando Charry Lara

THE LOVER’S THOUGHTS

Since the intimacy the night the creature
The man who dreams about it and the sun bleeding in the afternoon
When along corridors of bluish stone
The footsteps you now await
In the vast space of inflamed silence

(Deeper is the love that no one names
More bitter the distress of a mirror
When suddenly blurred by the slow breath
Of the far away sadness of someone
Who unwittingly roams across the void.)

The arch of the brows with a ray
The multitude of gold the shoulders in the white
A subterranean river in his breast
Thighs slowly mastering the earth
Gaze that in a duel exploded tremulously

Hope defeated by time
A perpetual walk in the rain
In the city of clouds and agonies
Despite everything and endlessly following you always
Oh cold brush of invisible flame

(Why did you retreat and remain silent
Did you think of yourself trembling like a child
A broken lament in your throat
Devoured by the net of a darkness
Saddened by your own dream?)

Then along motionless streets the dawn
Brought the undecipherable chance of a face
Blond brilliance and the fragile enthrallment
Of finding you alive in another paradise
Far from the occidental sun stained with blood

But thirst and thought pursue you
Your absence is invaded only by a body
That convulsed profile of desire flying
Towards clouds where eyes are green
Where they are still green and somber implacably

Hazy the gray days successively turn
Pale with drizzle and uncertainties
When close to nightfall you exist
With the darkness of beings around you
Their disdainful deafness impenetrable

Red Bogotá delirious like a fire
That invades milling crowds with lights
Then the night air opening moons
And hiding an eagerness deep down
Oh you who girdles and tightens and loves unseen

(Only within your heart things happen
You hear only a hoarse trumpet course your blood
Time accumulating in ashes
You turn to look at reflections at nightfall
In the night silent lips lull you back to sleep)

Body that does not walk but
Forconstellations of incandescent exile
Bring your accustomed feet to the dawn
To walk in this forsaken island this door
Where love knocks against phantoms

(It is not the dream but it is us
As destiny is harsh and adverse
The desert hope without sustenance
Sleepy days and thoughts flow
Corpses of sun and rain in the memory)

After secretive steps voices echoes
                                               Come eternal eternal
Gesture concealing shadow suspected by the air
But when your footsteps vanish again
So at the end will body be night
Once again unfathomable your light out of time

Pensamientos del amante

Pensamientos del amante

Ya que la intimidad la noche la criatura
El hombre que la sueña y al sol con sangre de la tarde
Cuando por corredores de azulada piedra
Los pasos que ahora esperas
En vasto espacio enardeciendo callan.

(Es más hondo el amor que nadie nombra
Más amarga la desdicha de un espejo
Cuando de pronto lo empaña lento vaho
De una tristeza a lo lejos de alguien
Que ignorado cruza errante el vacío)

El arco de la cejas con un rayo
La multitud del oro los hombres en lo blanco
Un río subterráneo entre su pecho
Los muslos lentamente dueños de la tierra
La mirada que en un duelo trémula estallaba

Vencida por el tiempo la esperanza
Un caminar perpetuo entre la lluvia
En la ciudad de nubes y agonías
Contra todo y sin fin seguirte siempre
Oh roce frío de invisible llama

(¿Por qué retrocedías y callabas
Te pensabas temblando como un niño
Lamento entrecortado en tu garganta
Devorado en la red de una tiniebla
Entristecido por tu propio sueño?)

Luego por yertas calles la alborada
Trajo al azar indescifrable un rostro
Rubio fulgor y el frágil embeleso
De en otro paraíso hallarte vivo
Lejos del sol occidental ensangrentado

Mas te persiguen la sed y el pensamiento
La ausencia te la invade solo un cuerpo
Ese confuso perfil del deseo volando
Hacia nubes donde son verdes los ojos
Donde implacables son verdes aún y sombríos

Confusos giran grises en sucesión los días
Pálidos de lloviznas e incertidumbres
Cuando junto al anochecer existes
Con penumbra de seres a tu alrededor
Su desdeñosa sordera impenetrable

Enrojece delira Bogotá como incendio
Que invade en luces gentes bullicios
Luego el aire nocturno abriendo lunas
Y escondido en lo oculto un afán
Oh tú que ignorada rodeas y estrechas y amas

(Sólo dentro de tu corazón pasan las cosas
Solamente oyes una ronca bocina por tu sangre
El tiempo acumulándose en cenizas
Vuelves a mirar reflejos en el atardecer
En la noche te adormecen otra vez mudos labios)

Cuerpo que no camina sino
Por constelaciones de incandescente destierro
Trae tus pies acostumbrados a la aurora
A pisar esta isla de nadie esta puerta
Donde el amor golpea con fantasmas

(No es el sueño sino somos nosotros
Como el destino es áspero y contrario
La desierta esperanza sin sustento
En duermevela fluyen días y pensamientos
Cadáveres de sol y lluvia en la memoria)

Tras sigilos pasos voces ecos
                                         Eterna eterna ven
Gesto callando sombra que sospecha el aire
Pero al desvanecerse de nuevo tus huellas
Como al final el cuerpo será noche
Otra vez insondable tu luz fuera del tiempo
Close

THE LOVER’S THOUGHTS

Since the intimacy the night the creature
The man who dreams about it and the sun bleeding in the afternoon
When along corridors of bluish stone
The footsteps you now await
In the vast space of inflamed silence

(Deeper is the love that no one names
More bitter the distress of a mirror
When suddenly blurred by the slow breath
Of the far away sadness of someone
Who unwittingly roams across the void.)

The arch of the brows with a ray
The multitude of gold the shoulders in the white
A subterranean river in his breast
Thighs slowly mastering the earth
Gaze that in a duel exploded tremulously

Hope defeated by time
A perpetual walk in the rain
In the city of clouds and agonies
Despite everything and endlessly following you always
Oh cold brush of invisible flame

(Why did you retreat and remain silent
Did you think of yourself trembling like a child
A broken lament in your throat
Devoured by the net of a darkness
Saddened by your own dream?)

Then along motionless streets the dawn
Brought the undecipherable chance of a face
Blond brilliance and the fragile enthrallment
Of finding you alive in another paradise
Far from the occidental sun stained with blood

But thirst and thought pursue you
Your absence is invaded only by a body
That convulsed profile of desire flying
Towards clouds where eyes are green
Where they are still green and somber implacably

Hazy the gray days successively turn
Pale with drizzle and uncertainties
When close to nightfall you exist
With the darkness of beings around you
Their disdainful deafness impenetrable

Red Bogotá delirious like a fire
That invades milling crowds with lights
Then the night air opening moons
And hiding an eagerness deep down
Oh you who girdles and tightens and loves unseen

(Only within your heart things happen
You hear only a hoarse trumpet course your blood
Time accumulating in ashes
You turn to look at reflections at nightfall
In the night silent lips lull you back to sleep)

Body that does not walk but
Forconstellations of incandescent exile
Bring your accustomed feet to the dawn
To walk in this forsaken island this door
Where love knocks against phantoms

(It is not the dream but it is us
As destiny is harsh and adverse
The desert hope without sustenance
Sleepy days and thoughts flow
Corpses of sun and rain in the memory)

After secretive steps voices echoes
                                               Come eternal eternal
Gesture concealing shadow suspected by the air
But when your footsteps vanish again
So at the end will body be night
Once again unfathomable your light out of time

THE LOVER’S THOUGHTS

Since the intimacy the night the creature
The man who dreams about it and the sun bleeding in the afternoon
When along corridors of bluish stone
The footsteps you now await
In the vast space of inflamed silence

(Deeper is the love that no one names
More bitter the distress of a mirror
When suddenly blurred by the slow breath
Of the far away sadness of someone
Who unwittingly roams across the void.)

The arch of the brows with a ray
The multitude of gold the shoulders in the white
A subterranean river in his breast
Thighs slowly mastering the earth
Gaze that in a duel exploded tremulously

Hope defeated by time
A perpetual walk in the rain
In the city of clouds and agonies
Despite everything and endlessly following you always
Oh cold brush of invisible flame

(Why did you retreat and remain silent
Did you think of yourself trembling like a child
A broken lament in your throat
Devoured by the net of a darkness
Saddened by your own dream?)

Then along motionless streets the dawn
Brought the undecipherable chance of a face
Blond brilliance and the fragile enthrallment
Of finding you alive in another paradise
Far from the occidental sun stained with blood

But thirst and thought pursue you
Your absence is invaded only by a body
That convulsed profile of desire flying
Towards clouds where eyes are green
Where they are still green and somber implacably

Hazy the gray days successively turn
Pale with drizzle and uncertainties
When close to nightfall you exist
With the darkness of beings around you
Their disdainful deafness impenetrable

Red Bogotá delirious like a fire
That invades milling crowds with lights
Then the night air opening moons
And hiding an eagerness deep down
Oh you who girdles and tightens and loves unseen

(Only within your heart things happen
You hear only a hoarse trumpet course your blood
Time accumulating in ashes
You turn to look at reflections at nightfall
In the night silent lips lull you back to sleep)

Body that does not walk but
Forconstellations of incandescent exile
Bring your accustomed feet to the dawn
To walk in this forsaken island this door
Where love knocks against phantoms

(It is not the dream but it is us
As destiny is harsh and adverse
The desert hope without sustenance
Sleepy days and thoughts flow
Corpses of sun and rain in the memory)

After secretive steps voices echoes
                                               Come eternal eternal
Gesture concealing shadow suspected by the air
But when your footsteps vanish again
So at the end will body be night
Once again unfathomable your light out of time
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