love/intimacy

The Train, its Wailing

I hear the wailing, the train
approaches from far away
honeyed dreams
tormented
carrying me instead to
serpentine, scabrous tracks

Deep in the night, the wailing
vanishes
only the song of the river who speaks
with her seething lashes
like blows that fall upon the soul
come to whisper, relating plunges foretold

Like the very cries of Time
I hear the echoes, the breaths
of my affliction
I search for a path to take flight
to cast off these fetters,
tying me to the void.

Where might I find a love
to hold me fast?

Who am I?

I search for my shadow, in the brilliant light
seeing myself, I shudder
and in the silence, I hear
your heart.

In the Sun’s beard
my dreams ignite
in the upper-world colorful ashes
envelop me until night falls.

The mountains’ power
abandons me, callously
with salt-heavy tears
I wash away the trace
of my ephemeral path

Yet my delight is unbounded
dancing, lingering…

So now do you know
who I am?

Apachita

Pichinkupa takinta
mana uyarispa
rikchariyta chiqnini.
Ñawiyki mana k’anchaptin,
chilliku mana takiptin,
¿imapaqmi kawsayman?

Manam apachita
ñanniykipi kanichu.
Chusaqpi manam imaypas
ñuqapa kawaqchu.

Kuyakuq miski asnayki
hap’iwaptinpas.
Much’aykikuna k’añawaptinpas
manam imaypas qampa kasaqchu