Poesías y Poemas

I´m not sure about this

I´m not sure about this but I suppose
that a woman and a man
fall in love some day,
little by little, loneliness starts to set in:
something in their hearts tells them they´re alone;
all alone, they enter one another;
they go on killing one another.

This all happens in silence. The way
the light enters the eye.
Love merges bodies.
In silence, they go on filling one another.

They´ll wake up, arm in arm, one day,
thinking they know all there is to be known;
they´ll see that they´re naked and know.

(I´m not sure about this: I suppose)


Jaime Sabines
Translated by Colin Carberry