Mario Rivero

(Colombia, 1935)
Love
Love is something that comes and heats you up
once. And only for one instant,
-if it comes at all-.
And after this habit of heat,
once again, Ah! It leaves us dying alone.

In these silences! This abandoning yourself
to be transported beyond the counter tops
of the bars,
and beyond good and evil.

Love is a puncture. An odor that disappears,
actually,
and tell us “I was here”.
-fragrant flowering woad- in the rare and tenuous
sensation of perfuming,
in the already empty room…

Translated by Constante Lardas.


 

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