Beste hizkuntzetako lanen zerrenda

 

  Translation: Sarah J. Turtle &
    Iņaki Mendiguren

 

 

Patience

 

Do not ask me to be as loyal as mirrors

if you cannot see yourself before you,

if you cannot see right inside me

as through a window resigned to staying open.

 

I am no lizard between cracks,

I have been taught to stay put.

 

I pass the days patiently,

unaware I am resigned

to hanging on to the house my father gave me.

 

I know nothing of other's pain unless it is mine.

From my perspective I tell you

not to ask me to be as loyal as mirrors,

I will not move

insofar as my breath orders me to stay.

 

I have been taught to stay put.

 

 

© Leire Bilbao
© of the translation: Sarah J. Turtle & Iņaki Mendiguren

 


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