NIRVANA REVISITED (translation)

NIRVANA REVISITED * I want to know if we understand each other to the point where there is no more need of conversation I want to know if we will finally arrive at that place where there is no more need for communication… just existing to share something as simple as pure air The dance of light on washing waves from the daily tide the Earth bound to the Sky The holy arrival of nothingness Nothing to trade or give away And nothing to ask for in return, but silence bartered for your services as I give you mine and coming to the realization that we finally agree not to understand each other. * WordPlaya, August 2009 Based on a translation from the poem by Pablo Neruda ____________________________________________ Quiero saber si usted viene conmigo a no andar y no hablar, quiero saber si al fin alcanzaremos la incommunicacion: por fin ir con alguien a ver al aire puro, la luz listada del mar de cada dia o un objeto terrestre y no tener nada que intercambiar por fin, no introducir mercaderias como lo hacian los colonizadores cambiado barajitas por silencio. Pago yo aqui por tu silencio. De acuerdo: yo te doy el mio con una condicion: no comprendernos. * poem from Pablo Neruda, out of his book The Sea and the Bells ______________________________________________________ Translation of the Neruda poem below by William O'Daly: I want to know i you come with me toward not walking and not speaking, I want to know if we finally will reach no communication: finally going with someone to see pure air, rays of light over the daily sea or a landbound object and finally having nothing to trade, without goods to furnish as the colonizers had, exchanging coupons for silence. Here I purchase your silence. I agree: I give you mine with one provision: that we not understand each other. _____________________________________________________