Friday, March 4, 2011

poetry moment...
I Am Not I By Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881 - 1958)
English version by Robert Bly

I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
the one who remains silent while I talk,
the one who forgives, sweet, when I hate,
the one who takes a walk when I am indoors,
the one who will remain standing when I die.

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