NOCTURNAL MOMENTS Poem by Jorge Gaitán Durán

I watched the time and I knew the night.
My mind set up fires in the nothingness.
They were suns, myriads that filled up
the sky. Everything was sky.
I had everything, except gods in an impassible
happiness. I lived with rapture
in the radiating harmony of the worlds.

From star to star, up to the infinite
some mortal eyes
could finally measure human smallness.
From galaxy to galaxy, the soul
went after the sight towards firmaments
where nothing grows nor concludes.

The blue sang in the sky of the night
and the nightingale fled the threshold of time.
The hills called the stars with a flying
music. A white deer passed
through the humid secret of the forest,
and in the shade your nakedness woke up.
The earth was once again my desire.