Rubén Darío Arroyo (Colombia, 1955)
Rubén Darío Arroyo (Colombia, 1955)
Eighth Epigram
What ever happened to you?
I wonder today
Still remaining in this nobodies homeland:
among thousands of orphans, of widows
and of so many children jumping the abyss of suicide.
For the meantime, I feel that I keep waiting,
I dont know what things could show me
A light hope
For not succumbing in the face of your absence.
It is probable that this time of massacres,
of tragedies and silences,
doesnt reach me so for to see you again.
For those circumstances its urgent for me
to keep, like a drop of mercury,
this dream cupped in the hands.
Tranlated by Raúl Jaime Gaviria