XXXIII
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If it rained tonight I would retire
from here to a thousand years.
Or better just a hundred, no more,
as if nothing had happened, I should imagine
that I’m still to come.
Oh, motherless and loveless, without an urge
to squat down and loom into the very depths by pure
strength,
tonight, like this, I should be disentangling
the Vedic fiber,
the Vedic wool of my final end, thread
of the devil, the twisting
mark of having held by the nose
two jangling clappers of time
in one single bell.
Do the math of my life,
or do the math of yourself still not born yet,
I shall not succeed in freeing myself.
It will not be what has not yet come, but what has
arrived and already gone, but what has
arrived and already gone.