vendredi 10 mars 2023

THERE MUST BE A PROHIBITION AGAINST NOT BEING HAPPY, A LAW AGAINST UNHAPPINESS ?

 This poem was erroneously attributed to Pablo Neruda but the author is Alfredo Cuervo Barrero, a young spanish poet.

Queda prohibido

ALFONSO CUERVO BARRERO

¿Qué es lo verdaderamente importante?,

busco en mi interior la respuesta,

y me es tan difícil de encontrar.

Falsas ideas invaden mi mente,

acostumbrada a enmascarar lo que no entiende,

aturdida en un mundo de falsas ilusiones,

donde la vanidad, el miedo, la riqueza,

la violencia, el odio, la indiferencia,

se convierten en adorados héroes.

Me preguntas cómo se puede ser feliz,

cómo entre tanta mentira puede uno convivir,

cada cual es quien se tiene que responder,

aunque para mí, aquí, ahora y para siempre:

queda prohibido llorar sin aprender,

levantarme un día sin saber qué hacer,

tener miedo a mis recuerdos,

sentirme solo alguna vez.

Queda prohibido no sonreír a los problemas,

no luchar por lo que quiero,

abandonarlo todo por tener miedo,

no convertir en realidad mis sueños.

Queda prohibido no demostrarte mi amor,

hacer que pagues mis dudas y mi mal humor,

inventarme cosas que nunca ocurrieron,

recordarte sólo cuando no te tengo.

Queda prohibido dejar a mis amigos,

no intentar comprender lo que vivimos,

llamarles sólo cuando les necesito,

no ver que también nosotros somos distintos.

Queda prohibido no ser yo ante la gente,

fingir ante las personas que no me importan,

hacerme el gracioso con tal de que me recuerden,

olvidar a toda la gente que me quiere.

Queda prohibido no hacer las cosas por mí mismo,

no creer en mi dios y hacer mi destino,

tener miedo a la vida y a sus castigos,

no vivir cada día como si fuera un último suspiro.

Queda prohibido echarte de menos sin alegrarme,

olvidar los momentos que me hicieron quererte,

todo porque nuestros caminos han dejado de abrazarse,

olvidar nuestro pasado y pagarlo con nuestro presente.

Queda prohibido no intentar comprender a las personas,

pensar que sus vidas valen más que la mía,

no saber que cada uno tiene su camino y su dicha,

pensar que con su falta el mundo se termina.

Queda prohibido no crear mi historia,

dejar de dar las gracias a mi familia por mi vida,

no tener un momento para la gente que me necesita,

no comprender que lo que la vida nos da, también nos lo quita.


It's forbidden

ALFONSO CUERVO BARRERO


What is really important?,


I search within myself for the answer


And it's so hard for me to find.


False ideas invade my mind


accustomed to masking what she does not understand,


stunned in a world of false illusions,


where vanity, fear, wealth,


violence, hatred, indifference,


they become beloved heroes.


You ask me how you can be happy


How among so many lies can one live,


each one is the one who has to answer,


although for me, here, now and forever:


It is forbidden to cry without learning


waking up one day not knowing what to do


be afraid of my memories,


sometimes feel alone


It is forbidden not to smile at problems,


not fight for what I want,


abandon everything for being afraid,


not make my dreams come true.


It is forbidden not to show you my love,


make you pay for my doubts and my bad mood,


invent things that never happened


remember you only when I don't have you.


It is forbidden to leave my friends,


not trying to understand what we live,


call them only when I need them,


not seeing that we too are different.


It is forbidden not to be me before people,


pretend to people that I don't care


play funny as long as they remember me,


forget all the people who love me.


It is forbidden not to do things by myself,


not believe in my god and make my destiny,


to be afraid of life and its punishments,


Don't live each day as if it were your last breath.


It is forbidden to miss you without rejoicing,


forget the moments that made me love you,


all because our paths have stopped embracing,


forget our past and pay for it with our present.


It is forbidden not to try to understand people,


to think that their lives are worth more than mine,


not knowing that each one has his way and his happiness,


to think that with his lack the world ends.


It is forbidden not to create my story,


stop thanking my family for my life,


not having a moment for the people who need me,


not understanding that what life gives us, it also takes away.












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