The Thursday Poem

Potted Flowers with Books IV
Eric Barjot

I Am Not I

I am not I.

I am this one

Walking beside me whom I do not see,

Whom at times I manage to visit,

And at other times I forget.

The one who remains silent when I talk,

The one who forgives, sweet, when I hate,

The one who takes a walk when I am indoors,

The one who will remain standing when I die.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

(24th December 1881 - 29th May 1958)

translated by Robert Bly

(23rd December 1926 - )