IT DID NOT WANT TO BE It did not recognise the meeting of the he and she. The blossom so enamoured could not become flowery. It stopped its senses, refused discovery, descended diaphanous before light’s clarity. It saw tomorrow’s cloudiness, stayed, in yesterday’s history. It did not want to be. Miguel Hernández English translation by Anthony S. Kline |
Jean-Michel Folon, Love and Hope, 2000. Courtesy of Invaluable, LLC.
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