That there’s no danger - Eduardo Milán

That there’s no danger,

that the word stays intact

outside the person, by their side.

That there’s no need to confuse

one person with another, either one’s a

social being - or a brute, the rest will leave

the stage, it was a long night devoid of

dragonflies and clouds, black –

the other person, a mask. That it’s absolutely

interesting what’s thought, what’s done

halfway through the story, the rabble

takes you in – there are birds in flight.

Man passes, the word stays.

Of how the word stays,

as a quality of what, intact as what,

saved from I don’t know what, immaculate,

stays dead, stays alive, stays a wound,

silence, no one’s saying anything.

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Eduardo Milán (born 1952) Uruguay

Translated by Peter Boyle

Source: LyrikLine