La Vida Total
Patricio Manns
Total Life
Life is a space between two deaths
Death is a silence of love
Love is an orgasm between two tears
Tear is a lake without its song
Song is a mystery of the mouth
Mouth is an abyss before the chest
Chest is another abyss between two bloods
Blood is the fuel that nourishes the act
Act is a dance against time
And time is what measures the spaces
enumerated so far.
The jungle is the ancestor of the desert
The desert is a body already drunk
Drinking doesn't quench the fire in consciousness
Consciousness is an ancient hourglass
The ancient shapes us like a child
A child is the past of bodies
Body is a battle that is lost
Lost without return to the unbelievable
The unbelievable will be what we cannot
And what we cannot will be what we always want
