THE PATH OF TOLERANCE AND SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT
Florentino UlibarriWe are going to share
the hugs and kisses that surge up in this moment,
the joys experienced on the way,
this free and luxuriant nature
and the beats of our wounded heart.
We are going to share
the little that we manage to understand,
our failed attempts to escape from the maze
and the fears accumulated from all time.
We are going to share
the drafts of our unaccomplished projects,
the clamour of the shouts and silence,
our most intimate stammers and sighs
and the perspirations of our body.
We are going to share
the word that is born in our innermost self,
that which comes to us from above like the frost,
that which surges from uncertain springs
and which when it reaches us, wells up
inside us until it overflows.
We are going to share
the time for poems and songs,
for dance and for the sacred word;
the wisdom accumulated over the years
and the buds that remain from childhood.
We are going to share
the lessons learned in this fraternal space,
the warmth of a family home,
the networks for our team work
and the bundles of all our dreams.
We are going to share
what appear to be crazy intuitions,
our few and unsure truths,
the pathways and falls at the start
and the log cabins that protect us.
We are going to share
our latest and final words,
inklings of a superior wisdom,
our inexperienced reasoning,
proclaiming categorical or absolute truths;
only the twilight of the faith and science,
of charity and hope,
of poverty and grace,
of human merriment and laughter.
And so on, Lord, we are and we continue to bring forth
sons, brothers, Church,
sharing it all together.
Florentino Ulibarri
Traducción de Hugo Castelli