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I am with you.
But over your shoulder
I am told good bye by your hand that walks away
So I restrain my hand
For it not to betray us as well.
And I insist:
I am with you.
Then the irrefutable titles of good bye
abandon their rights temporarily
And our hands allay
In the equidistance of being together.

Roberto Juárroz.

2

It is not a question of speaking
nor about remaining silent:
it is a question of opening something
between the Word and the Silence.
Perhaps when all has passed,
Even the word and the silence,
that open zone will remain
like a hope backwards
And maybe that inverted symbol
will constitute a warning sign
for this unlimited mutism
where we are palpably sinking.

Roberto Juárroz.

13

To You.

The centre of love
doesn't always coincide
with the centre of life.
Thus both centres seek each other
like two wounded animals
But rarely do they find each other
because the key of the coincidence is another:
to be born together.
To be born together,
like all lovers
should be born and die.

Roberto Juárroz.

"Soy un espejo, un eco. El epitafio."

Borges.