Muchas ciudades / Rafael Cadenas

Many cities

Many cities
you wandered,
marginal,
defenseless against the exorbitant
and resolved to carrying yourself
not like those in whose scales
the name
weighs more than life,
but rather forgotten
like he who passes in silence,
alert,
without a burden
and wants
to listen.




{ Rafael Cadenas, Gestiones, Caracas: Editorial Pomaire, 1992 }