"You will never untangle the circumstances that brought you to this moment."

La Tierra Giró para Acercarnos

The earth turned to bring us closer,
it spun on itself and within us,
and finally joined us together in this dream as written in the Symposium.
Nights passed by, snowfalls and solstices; time passed in minutes and millennia
An ox cart that was on its way to Nineveh arrived in Nebraska.
A rooster was singing some distance from the world, in one of the thousand
pre-lives of our fathers.
The earth was spinning with its music
carrying us on board;
it didn't stop turning a single moment
as if so much love, so much that's miraculous was only an adagio written long
ago in the Symposium's score.

from
The Trees
Selected Poems 1967-2004
Eugenio Montejo



*Leonard Cohen quoting from the Bhagavad Gita