ENRIQUE LIHN, traducido al inglés por Roger Swanzy

Enrique Lihn nació en 1929 en Santiago (Chile), donde murió en 1988.

DESTIEMPO

Nuestro entusiasmo alentaba a estos días que corren

entre la multitud de la igualdad de los días.

Nuestra debilidad cifraba en ellos

nuestra última esperanza.

Pensábamos y el tiempo que no tendría precio

se nos iba pasando pobremente

y estos son, pues, los años venideros.

Todo lo íbamos a resolver ahora.

Teníamos la vida por delante.

Lo mejor era no precipitarse.

OUT OF TIME

Our enthusiasm was spurred on by the days that run

among the crowd of the same old days.

Our weakness placed

our last hope in them.

We thought and time would be priceless

everything was going poorly for us

and sigh, these are the years to come.

We were going to solve everything now.

We had our whole lives ahead of us.

It was best not to jump the gun.

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