Como las golondrinas

Como las golondrinas

A Poem by Amanda Granger

The moments when nothing makes sense
The silence compounding silence that fades
And won’t be broken

Me liberaste, pero no sabías
Que me perderás un día.

A crippling pain in my core
Everything looks distorted--
Sores grow on my lips,
Tears stir my eyes
And stop my lungs--
I’m empty.

Este vacío no tiene remedio

La distancia

entre tu

y yo

no se puede llenar,
y aun no se puede conservar

Everything’s wrong, a sinsentido
I can’t seem to put it right
Nuestro nido está por caer
No se puede permanecer.

A calm voice in the back of my mind
Is all I have in moments of purgatory
And when that fades, what remains?

Se van para no volver,
Como lágrimas del día,
Hay que callar y caer.

I can’t look in the mirror
When I know just what I’ll see--
A hollow shell, a sick, exhausted husk
On the cusp of peeling away
My dried skin and sunken eyes
Seem to echo and fade away.

The swallows of happier days might return.
Tomorrow’s light might bring a brighter sight,
Pero aquellas que me enviaste de lejos
Las de nuestra felicidad, como aquellos
De Bécker…Ya me desengañé…

I know they won’t return.

© 2014 Amanda Granger


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Added on October 13, 2014
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Amanda Granger
Amanda Granger

New Orleans, LA



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I'm a 20 year old Spanish major with a double minor in English and Latin American studies. I love reading, writing, and contemplating the confounding patterns and puzzles that make up reality; I dabbl.. more..

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