Del sueño
La vida, dijo el viejo,
es solamente un sueño.
Tal vez pero en ese sueño son
nuestros más grandes inventos:
los dioses y la justicia.
Lejos, lejos somos
de perfeccionar a nuestros dioses
y lograr la justicia.
Para eso es preciso despertar
y despertando,
amar.
© Rafael Jesús González 2020
Of the Dream
Life, said the old man,
is only a dream.
Perhaps but in that dream are
our greatest inventions:
the gods & justice.
Far, far are we
from perfecting our gods
& achieving justice.
For that we must awake
& awakening,
love.
© Rafael Jesús González 2020
* Rafael Jesús González, Poet Laureate, City of Berkeley, CA, P. O. Box 5638
Berkeley, CA 94705. rjgonzalez@mindspring.com
http://rjgonzalez.blogspot.com/
Born and raised on the U.S./Mexican border, El Paso, TX/Cd. Juárez, Chih, González grew up bilingual, bi-cultural, heir to two muses speaking Spanish and English. Consequently almost all his work are single pieces in the two tongues, Spanish and English, neither one the translation of the other.
