FOREVER
Knowing that you're leaving
torments me night and day
my heart bleeds
like a damned soul in hell.
Depart, depart for distant cities
keep on living your other life
and forget whatever I've suffered
as you enjoy existence.
Black mists, jealous clouds of darkness
obscure your brow in storm,
and the pain that I've felt
bursts forth in a torrent of tears.
Since the day I saw you
my soul glows haloed in your eyes
and my heart is full
of scarlet petals.
If in my chest there could be flowers
since this heart languishes, withering,
it would carpet with petals
the road where you walk.
Depart, depart for distant lands
go on living your other life
and bury in forgetfulness
everything that's existed here.
Adela Zamudio
Translation by Liz Henry
Tomado de http://bookmaniac.org/poetry/antologia/