The day that changed my life

The day that changed my life

I replaced a vast wishing garden with a stone of reality,

on which love – a terrible angel, fallen from the grace of her eyes –

fades into the mist of its absence far away, where nestles that oblivion on which Luis Cernuda wrote about.

 

The day that changed my life,

I deserted as a navigator of the seas of destiny,

I became a sailor on land, as old as Odysseus,

though without his faith in returning to my Ithaca

where my fire, my bread, my wife awaited me, as Rafael Alberti wrote.

 

The day that changed my life,

I didn't know which way to take from the two that diverged from a yellow forest

I waited for a moment that felt like an eternity

and

I chose to retrace the path of madness and take that of sanity

which is the most travelled by those of us who survive driven by that indifference about which Robert Frost wrote about.

 

Click here to read the Spanish version of this amalgam.

 

 

«The Road Not Taken», By Robert Frost

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken

 «Marinero en tierra», por Rafael Alberti

https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/marinero-en-tierra-1924-seleccion--0/html/

 «Donde habite el olvido», por Luis Cernuda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQWSEMb0DgI