Otro
Mundo si es posible
20
de mayo del 2018
One of my favorite poets and writers is
Robert Frost. The Road Not Taken, and Mending Wall are very deep poems.
They represent very profound inner emotions and I can’t help but ponder upon
society and other people in my surroundings who are a bit at a loss in their
journey. The Road Not Taken clearly
indicates our fate, if/when we sacrify something, we will get there sooner or
later. Mending Wall resonates very unmistakably every time I read it.
The social class issue is very evident in our worldwide society. In some places
it is more palpable, in other places not as much. In India the social classes
are even classified by names, in other places, they are not precisely given
specific names, but they are there, like a glass ceiling.
In another world, I would tear down
each and every wall. In my world, everyone’s life would be valued equally because
of life itself, not because of the social class someone belongs to. Deep down,
my mind fathoms an unbiased world, my heart tells me that it can happen, my
spirit yearns for other circumstances, otro mundo si es posible because we are
all one mind, one heart, one spirit, one soul, one body, one unit, one world…
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that wants it down!” The hope
is that, in time, through this exchange, these walls will become increasingly
permeable and, eventually, extinct – one idea, one person, one brick at a
time.”
“¡Hay algo que no es amigo de los muros, algo que quiere derribarlos!” La esperanza es que, con el tiempo, a través de este intercambio,
estos muros se harán totalmente permeables, y finalmente, se extinguirán en:
una idea, una persona, un ladrillo a la vez.”
“Something
there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are
turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences make good
neighbours."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no
cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down." I could say
"Elves" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good
neighbours."
Reparando el Muro
“Algo
hay que no es amigo de los muros,
Que hincha la tierra helada a sus cimientos,
Que arroja al sol las piedras desde el borde
Y abre brechas por donde caben dos.
Lo que hace el cazador es otra cosa:
Lo he reparado tras seguirlo a donde
No ha dejado ni piedra sobre piedra
Persiguiendo al conejo a su guarida
Para animar al perro. Éstas son brechas
Que nadie ve formarse –no hay ni pista–
Pero en la primavera hay que enmendar.
Se lo anuncio al vecino tras la cuesta;
Luego, un día, en la línea divisoria,
Nos encontramos a rehacer el muro.
El muro nos separa mientras vamos.
A cada cual las piedras que le tocan.
Unas, óvalos, otras, casi esferas,
Las hechizamos para balancearlas:
“¡Quédense ahí hasta que nos demos vuelta!"
Nuestros dedos se agrietan al asirlas.
Cierto, es juego campestre, como tantos,
Uno contra otro. Para más no da:
Donde vivimos no hace falta muro:
Él es de pinos, yo de manzanares.
Mis manzanos no van a ir a comerse
Las piñas de tus pinos, le señalo.
Él responde, “Buen muro, buen vecino".
La primavera es travesura, y pienso
Qué podría meterle en la cabeza:
"¿Por qué «buen muro, buen vecino»? ¿No es
Eso una pauta para donde hay vacas?
Pero aquí no tenemos ni una vaca.
Antes de repararlo hay que plantearse
A quién uno va a incluir, a quién excluir,
Y quién puede acabar con un disgusto.
Algo hay que no es amigo de los muros,
Que los derriba”. Quiero decir “duendes”
Pero no son exactamente duendes,
Y prefiero que él sea quien lo diga.
Lo veo con una piedra en cada mano,
Como un salvaje troglodita armado.
La sombra en que se mueve me parece
Más que sombra de ramas o de selva.
No indaga el estribillo de su padre
Y tanto le complace recordarlo
Que repite, “Buen muro, buen vecino”.
