Tuesday 18 August 2009

Our Trade - Η Συναλλαγή Μας

I suppose I could lie.
It’s easily done and even that
can be forgiven

If the lie is good enough
and smooth enough

And leavened with a touch of the truth.

What’s fiction but a lie well told?

I could lie but the truth is

Our trade begins in magic.


That’s all.

That’s the whole of it.

That’s all we know.


What’s the use of
saying silence helps?

Noise may help too.
The call of the cuckoo

I hear thee and rejoice

Or the stuttering orisons of . . . but you know that one.

No use framing a law that contradicts itself.

Even in our trade.
But I offer you a contradiction instead:
All words disrupt silence

But the only ones that echo

Are born in the silence they destroy.

(...)
.......................................
Υποθέτω θα μπορούσα να πω ψέμματα.
Εύκολο είναι, και ακόμα κι' έτσι συγχωρείται

αν το ψέμμα είναι αρκετά καλό και ήπιο

και έχει λίγη μαγιά απ' την αλήθεια.

Τι άλλο είναι φαντασία από ένα ψέμμα καλά ειπωμένο;

Θα μπορούσα να πώ ψέμματα, αλλά η αλήθεια είναι πως

Η συναλλαγή μας αρχίζει με τρόπο μαγικό.


Αυτό είν' όλο.

Αυτό είναι συνολικά.

Αυτό είν' όλο που γνωρίζουμε.


Τι ωφελεί να λες Σιωπή;

Ο Θόρυβος ίσως να βοηθά επίσης.
Ο ήχος τού κούκου

Σε ακούω κι' αναγαλλιάζω
ή ψελλίζοντας δεήσεις γιά...,
αλλά το ξέρεις αυτό.
Δεν ωφελεί να διατυπώνεις ένα νόμο,
που αυτοδιαψεύδεται.

Ακόμα και στην συναλλαγή μας.

Μα αντ' αυτού σας προσφέρω την αντίφαση:

Όλες οι λέξεις διαλύουν την σιωπή

αλλά οι μόνες που ηχούνε
γεννιούνται μέσα στην σιωπή που καταστρέφουν.

(...)


Jerry Pinto

The whole poem, is available in :
http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14750

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