Robert Zend

Enigmo

Homoj sur planedo Tero,
ni tradukis ĉion
en la lingvon de niaj sensoj.

Sed ni
restis
netradukitaj.

Mineraloj
arboj
akvo
steloj
mikroboj
lumradioj
gapas nin nekredeme.

Ni konsternas ilin.

10 januaro 1967

— Elangligis Ralph Dumain, el poemaro Preter Etikedoj (Beyond Labels, 1982)

Enigma

Humans on planet earth,
we have translated everything
into the language of our senses.

But we
remained
untranslated.

Minerals
trees
water
stars
germs
beams of light
stare at us incredulously.

We puzzle them.

January 10, 1967

SOURCE: Zend, Robert. Beyond Labels, translated by Robert Zend and John Robert Colombo (Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1982), p. 53.

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