Declaración

Today
On any year's day
In any century's year
In my full mental faculties difficult
Assuming when I say and write

I declare, that I declare myself guilty
Guilty of everything I didn't do
Of everything I haven't seen or heard
Of the words I didn't say in time
Of the others I never learned
I worried about things that never happened
I spent a great part of my life in wrong places
At wrong hours, with wrong people

I declare that I arrived late to all appointments
That I was never before anywhere
That I found the blooming spring
The departing land and the premeditated sky
That all I have is less than what I lack
That I believed it, didn't believe it later
That I made the worst of mistakes
Dreamed in a world of nightmares

I also declare
That nothing is more true than our passing through life
Nor anything more false than our life passing by
That happy is the one who wants nothing
Who knows nothing, who questions nothing
And who realizes nothing
That from a trembling hand
Love in it can fall
That everything not given, not accumulated is lost
In the end, we are all
Slaves of some vice or some virtue
That I have been faithful only to my doubts
And that the freest man I knew
Was tied to a woman's heart