God
I feel God who walks
so much in me, with the
evening and the sea.
With him we move along
together. It gets dark.
With him we get dark.
Orphaned…
But I feel God. And it
even seems
he teaches me such a good
color I’m speechless.
Like a hospital, he’s kind
and sad;
shows a lover’s sweet
disdain:
your heart, it must ache
so much.
Oh my God, I’ve just come
to you,
today I love so much in
the evening, today
in the false balance of
some breasts,
I gauge and weep for a
fragile Creation.
And you, what will you
weep for?… You, lover
with such an enormous
whirling breast…
I consecrate you, God,
because you love so much;
because you never smile;
because always
your heart, it must ache
so much.
César Vallejo, “Dios”
Translation by Jack
Hayes
Image links to its source on Wiki Commons:
"La Solitude du Christ": Alphonse Osbert - oil on painting. 1897.Public domain
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