Selected Verses:

Love Vanishes

(translation/version of El Amor Desvanece)

by Luis S. González-Acevedo

“Love vanishes!”
–cries a frozen heart
who defeated
prepares a funeral
for every idiot …

… Love dies in a mortality
that forever
raves about its permanence;
but destiny does not forgive mere mortals.

Cry, love!
You were eternal;
but destiny has made you mortal.
Cry like a man cries
when love ends …

… when he suffers his destiny
without veiling the curse: …

 

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