March 8, 2015

Me despierto para dormir

Me despierto para dormir y lo hago lentamente.
Siento mi destino en lo que no puedo temer.
Aprendo yendo a donde tengo que ir.
Estas sacudidas me mantienen firme. Debería saberlo
Lo que se va es eterno y siempre está cerca.
Me despierto para dormir y lo hago lentamente.
Aprendo yendo a donde tengo que ir.

Tender are the stairs to heaven - Yayoi Kusama

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Llevo buscando ese poema un largo rato. Esta completo?? lo vi en el filme Frost.

Aida said...

Hola Ricardo,
Esto es sólo fragmentos traducidos y alterados.

Quizá te refieras "The Waking" de Theodore Roethke, y si es así aquí te lo dejo.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.