NEURE BURUAREN OROIGARRI

 

Geldirik geratzea baino ez.

 

Nire ahotsa mututu den tokian

berriz hasterik banu bezala,

ni neu banintz bezala

 

ahoska ez dezakedan hitz bat.

 

Hainbeste isiltasun,

haragi pentsalari honen baitan

biziberritzeko, hitzen

danbor tarrapatatsuaren

baitan, hainbeste hitz

 

nire barneko mundu zabalean

galduak, eta halere jakin ahal izatea

neure gogoaren kontra

 

hemen naizela.

 

Hau mundua balitz bezala.

 

 

 

 

IN MEMORY OF MYSELF

Simply to have stopped. // As if I could begin / where my voice has stopped, myself / the sound of a word // I cannot speak. // So much silence / to be brought to life / in this pensive flesh, the beating / drum of words / within, so many words // lost in the wide world / within me, and thereby to have known / that in spite of myself // I am here. // As if this were the world.