El Viaje Definitivo - The Definitive Journey

 

El Viaje Definitivo - The Definitive Journey

. . . and I will leave. But the birds will stay, singing,

and my garden will stay, with its green tree,

with its water well.

Many afternoons the skies will be blue and placid,

and the bells in the belfry will chime,

as they are chiming this very afternoon.

The people who have loved me will pass away,

and the town will burst anew every year.

But my spirit will always wander nostalgic

in the same recondite corner of my flowery garden.

- Juan Ramon Jimenez – translated by Carlos Casteneda in his book Journey to Ixtlan