Pantheon

Con claridad te veo con alma linda

Te veo furiosa gritando como golondrina

Y no tengo palabras para cantar contigo

Solo para decir que linda, que linda.

— Carlos Parral

You came to me as you always have done:

On a night I did not think I would see,

And at once every thought was undone

To see you standing there right before me.

Once not long ago, I was your angel,

O adonic star of my horizon,

And yet — there was no other way — we fell;

Do both sun and moon not sink and wizen?

That night when you came with your last embrace,

Bewildered as I was, I understood

Like one who his own death at last must face

As speechlessly in front of you I stood:

Prince of your pantheon I was before,

Now just a shadow lingers — nothing more.