So I Am Persuaded - Jaime Saenz

Everyone lives in one

—I, you, they.

We all live in all, no one lives or dies, and each is on his own

—but nobody knows what happens.

The world is a conjecture, so I am persuaded.

The form you attribute to yourself, the one I attribute to myself, the world assumes.

Movement and form are one and the same, and there is no such thing as the roundness of the world,

but indeed there is a form that ceaselessly transforms itself by virtue of time's movements

condensing and expanding into spirals already, into essences and lives, or into the kingdoms of chaos,

to return to the primordial particle, or to trail off into far regions of the decreated and the uncreated,

where nothing happens no matter what might happen, and where everything happens no matter what may not;

which is precisely where form's first and final cause must be found,

so I am persuaded.

for Jaime Taborga V

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Jaime Saenz (1921 – 1986) Bolivia

Translated by Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander

Source: Immanent Visitor, Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz, Translated by Kent Johnson and

Forrest Gander, University of California Press, 2002