Inspiration: The Blue of the Sky or The Other Sky

Otro Cielo

No existe esponja para lavar el cielo

pero aunque pudieras enjabonarlo

y luego echarle baldes y baldes de mar

y colgarlo al sol para que se seque

siempre faltaría el pájaro en silencio

no existen métodos para tocar el cielo

pero aunque te estiraras como una palma

y lograras rozarlo en tus delirios

y supieras al fin como es al tacto

siempre te faltaría la nube de algodón

no existe un puente para cruzar el cielo

pero aunque consiguieras llegar a la otra orilla

a fuerza de memoria y pronósticos

y comprobaras que no es tan dificil

siempre te faltaría el pino del crepusculo

eso es por que se trata de un cielo que no es tuyo aunque sea impetuoso y desgarrado

en cambio cuando llegue al que te pertenece

no lo querrás lavar ni tocar ni cruzar

pero estarán el pájaro y la nube y el pino.

Mario Benedetti

Other Sky

A sponge does not exist to wash the sky

even if you could soap it

and throw buckets and buckets of sea water on it

and to hang it in the sun so that it is dried

it would always lack the bird in silence

methods do not exist to touch the sky

even if you would stretch like a palm tree

and you would manage it in your deliriums

and you would know finally how it is to the touch

you would always need the cotton cloud

a bridge does not exist to cross the sky

even if you were able to arrive at the other border

by force of memory and prognoses

and you would verify that it is not so difficult

you would always need the pine of the twilight

that is why it is a sky that is not yours

even if it is impetuous and torn

however when you arrive at that to which you belong

you would want neither to wash nor touch nor cross

but there will be the bird and the cloud and the pine.

Mario Benedetti

I will be back in a couple of weeks.

Estare de regreso en un par de semanas!