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“God” by César Vallejo 🇵🇪 (16 Mar 189215 Apr 1938)
Translated from the Spanish by Clayton Eshleman
I feel God who walks
so inside me, with the evening and with the sea.
With him we go away together. Night falls.
With him we darken. Orphanhood …
But I feel God. And it even seems
that he dictates to me I don’t know what good color.
Like a hospitaler, he is kind and sad;
he languishes with a lover’s sweet disdain:
how much his heart must ache.
Oh, my God, I have only just approached you,
now when I love so much this evening; now
when on the fraudulent scales of someone’s breasts
I weigh and weep for a fragile Creation.
And you, how you will cry … you, so in love
with such an enormous rotating breast …
I consecrate you God, because you love so much;
because you never smile; because your heart
must always ache so much.