Canción que no se olvida / Luis Enrique Belmonte

Song You Don’t Forget

I don’t want to touch you as though it were the last time.
And it won’t be the last time. I’ve been told
by the foxes that cross secretly along the highway.

Another long voyage will come.
Roads, windows will come,
your signals in telephone booths.

Crabs will emerge from the room
starving for nights and bedsheets.

I’ll keep in my pockets
the crumbs from your bread, the wool from your socks.

And time will weave blankets for the encounter.
And the song you don’t forget will be heard.




Vendrá otra larga travesía (2006)




{ Luis Enrique Belmonte, Pasadizo. Poesía reunida 1994-2006, Caracas: Monte Ávila Editores, 2009 }