I'm
alive.
To whom do I owe this honour?
My soul staggers. Dante accompanies me
through
the Soviet night.
I wander through the ruins
of Hellas.
I can't flee.
Hide
the poems, Nadezhda.
Caesar, how could you
destroy
our liveliness?
I have abandoned all hope
at the entrance to the camp.
The only man who speaks Russian
couldn't forget.
A god forgives,
a demigod does not.
The shouts
are lost in the vastness of my country.
RAFAEL CADENAS (Barquisimeto,
Venezuela, 1930). "Gestiones/ Dealings", 2011. Mérida: Universidad de
los Andes/ Ediciones Actual. Versión de Rowena Hill.
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