Um grande poeta

Natan Zach (1930-)

Be Careful

Be careful. Open your life

only to the wind that has touched distance.

Suffer the absent. Speak up

only in the nights of solitude. Know the day,

the fixed season, the moment,

and don’t beg. Pay attention to what is still. Learn to bless

the shadow just beneath the skin. Don’t

hide in words. Sit with the counsel of worms,

the wisdom of the maggot. Don’t expect.

in The Static Element, Seleção de Poemas  de Natan Zach, traduzidos para o inglês por Peter Everwine e Shulamit Yasny-Starkman, Ateneum, Nova Iorque, 1982

p.s. transcrevo a versão original, certo de que traduzir do traduzido, e ainda por cima obra de um grande poeta, diminuiria a peça. Abaixo, nota sobre Natan Zach:

http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/3173/12/Natan-Zach