Qué era el hombre, qué era el hombre
Y en qué parte de su conversación abierta
Entre los almacenes y los silbidos,
En cuál de sus movimientos metálicos
Vivía lo indestructible,
Lo imperecedero,
La vida

Todos desfallecieron
Esperando su muerte,
Su corta muerte diaria,
Y su quebranto aciago
De cada día era
Como una copa negra
Que bebían temblando

Entonces en la escala de la piedra he subido,
Entonces en la escala de la piedra he subido,
Entre la atroz maraña de las selvas perdidas,
Hasta tí, Machu Picchu,
Alta ciudad de piedras escalares,
Por fin, morada del que lo terrestre
No escondió en las dormidas vestiduras,
En fin, como dos líneas paralelas,
La cuna del relampago y del hombre,
Se mecían en un viento de espinas,
Madre de piedra, espuma de los cóndores,
Alto arrecife de la aurora humana
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Cuando la mano de color de arcilla
Se convirtió en arcilla,
Y cuando los pequeños parpados
Se cerraron,
Llenos de asperos muros,
Poblados de castillos,
Y cuando todo el hombre
Se enredó en su agujero,
Quedó la exactitud enarbolada,
El alto sitio de la aurora humana,
La más alta vasija
Que contuvo el silencio,
Una vida de piedra
Después de tantas vidas


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    Heres a translaction... at least the best i can do.

    The powerfull death.

    What was men, What was men? and in wich part of his open discussion among the storages and the whistlerings in wich of his metalic movements, he lived the indestructible, the imperishable life?

    All of them got weak waiting for their death their short and daily death and his unlucky loss of every day was like a black glass wich they drank shaking

    Then, in the stone stair i've climbed Then, in the stone stair i've climbed among all this lost jungles to you, Machu Pichu high city of stone stairs. at last, home of the terrestrial at the end, as two paralalel lines, The cradle of thunder and men, who were on a spike wind, Rock mother, Condor foam high reef of mankind's halo

    When the clay coloured hand became clay and when the little eyelid closed full of rough walls full with castles and when every men got caught on his hole, the hoisted perfection is left. The high place of the mankind's halo the highest pot that held silence a stone life after so many lifes

    thats all

    Pablokoon August 06, 2009   Link

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