Desdeñosa [English translation]
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2024-11-02 15:44:31
Desdeñosa [English translation]
Although my life be full of darkness
I don't need to love, no I don't.
I know that to love is a sorrow,
And that a sorrow caused by love is infinite.
I don't need to love - I am ashamed
to love again what I have loved.
Any repetition is an offense
And any suppression is an omission.
Disdainful, like the gods,
I shall continue to fight for my destiny
Without listening to the terrified voices
Of those poisoned by death1.
I don't need to love - it would be absurd
I shall repeat the sermon on the mount
So as to last until all the immortal hatred
Which accompanies me dies.
1. I think this is a figurative use of envenenados such that the meaning of the line is "of those whose minds have been warped by the fear of death"
- Artist:Lhasa de Sela