7.30.2016

Raíz / Fernando Paz Castillo

Root

I

Everyone
loves the flower,
so beautiful;
but few remember
how hard
the deep root
works to find life.


II

How it struggles,
in the tough shade,
to find the trail
to water,
and also
make its sap,
out of hostile
materials.


III

Everyone
loves the flower,
proud and indifferent,
full of beauty,
always young
in its essence,
regardless of time
—persistent—
even though it’s powerless
against the symbol.


IV

Everyone
loves the flower:
but few remember
facing the colors’ suggestion
—rough or sweet beneath the sun—
the dark,
furtive and daily,
anxiety of the deep root.




Persistencias (1975)




{ Fernando Paz Castillo, Poesía, Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1986 }

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