#158 Mon (11/28/22) - 1964, II, a poem by J.L.B. (El otro, el mismo, 1964)

 …La vida es corta
y aunque las horas son tan largas, una
oscura maravilla nos acecha,
la muerte, ese otro mar, esa otra flecha
que nos libra del sol y de la luna
y del amor.
~ Jorge Luis Borges

... Life is brief,
and though the hours seem long, there is another
dark mystery that lies in wait for us
- death, that other sea, that other arrow
that frees us from the sun, the moon, and love.

[A.R. tr.] SP 217.

 

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