He felt different in this kind of life he was living. He was
walking among the multitude. He did not know such a different kind of people
before his coming to this country. This country was still unknown for his eyes
because he had only had disillusionments, all his life was full of deceptions.
At that moment he only had sights for the town where he was born. His home town
was in his mind all the time. He felt unhappy. “I am not from this century”, he
was accustomed to say when he was a young student, and he continued saying it
when he was working in the same town where he studied. Now –in that pass moment
that were some years ago- he was living in another country, what could he say? He
thought upon this idea for one moment. He left of thinking in some other things
he had in mind. But then he said to himself: “I am not from this century, I am
not from this country, and I am not at all from this kind of life I am living
now.” He felt peaceful for a tiny moment. He looked at the people that were
walking around him. No one was looking at him, but he felt their eyes on him. “What
is happening to me? Am I crazy perhaps? They are not looking upon me. Each one
has his own problems… This is not who I am, I have always been a different
person, I am not who I am now.” He closed his eyes for a moment. He did not
want to think about anything. Kept moving. “Where I go now? What can I do? Nothing
is like I thought when I decided to come to this country. People talked me
something different to what I am living for making me to come here. This is not
the paradise people told me. Money does not fell down from trees. This is a
horrible hell. Were they my friends? All they are living a great falsehood.
They are only great pretenders. They are pretending that are happy and they are
not. I am also a great lie. I am a very great pretender, just like all of them.
I am buried in a life that is not mine. I want to go back to my home country. I
cannot. My family needs the money I am sending every month. I am an illegal
alien. I am suffering so much but my family thinks I am happy here. I cannot
say to them the truth… I am not free in
the land of freedom!” And I know that he is not the only one feeling that way…
Life is sometimes so different to our dreams…
viernes, 31 de julio de 2015
martes, 21 de julio de 2015
¿Remembranzas?
“La soledad es buena para crear, pero peligrosa para
vivir. La nostalgia es conveniente para rememorar, pero no para sumergirse en
ella. Felizmente, siempre tienes a tu lado y contigo un libro” (Rosa
Avellaneda).
Remembrances?
“Solitude is good to create, but
live-threatening. Nostalgia
is convenient to recall, but not for immersing yourself fully in it. Happily,
you always have at your side and with you a book.” (Rosa Avellaneda).
martes, 14 de julio de 2015
Voy sumido en pensamientos que no conozco
He salido
de casa como siempre. Hoy no miro por dónde me llevan mis pasos cansinos. Voy
sumido en pensamientos que no conozco. Las calles por donde camino se esconden
al ritmo de mis pasos. Hay mucha soledad en los vaivenes del destino. Y en los
sueños aderezados con amor, se mueven venturosamente los dicterios de Afrodita…
Yo solamente quiero dejar atrás lo que no deseo llevar en mi morral. Aunque uno
no siempre deja detrás lo que no quiere llevar en el alma porque lo indeseado
permanece más allá de nuestros más caros deseos. Nadie está nunca tan limpio
como para lanzar la primera piedra. Y lo que uno puede al fin dejar atrás,
termina esperándonos más adelante… He mirado a mi alrededor y puedo contemplar los
rostros que me cruzan la espalda con fuetes pletóricos de dolor siempre vivo.
Nada hace que nos imaginemos las preocupaciones que cada uno de los caminantes
-que deambulan por estas calles llenas de gente a toda hora-, ha de llevar
consigo… Estoy en la biblioteca, todos están leyendo u ocupados con sus
computadoras y las que proporciona en forma gratuita la biblioteca. Aquí
encuentro la tranquilidad que no hallo en otros lugares. Me resulta curioso que
haya encontrado un refugio apropiado aquí, que está siempre lleno de gente. Quiero
estar aquí aunque traiga mi propio libro para leer (cosa que ya solía hacer en
Lima cuando estudiaba en San Marcos) o simplemente me ponga, como hora, a
escribir en mi computadora las ideas que me corretean sin cesar, sin darse a
conocer nítidamente. Me siento acompañado aunque no converse con nadie. En un
ambiente como éste cada uno está metido en sus propios asuntos, por eso todos
respetan mi soledad. Pasan las horas raudamente en este sitio. Camino por las calles de Queens rumiando mi
soledad… Los días se suceden alternando el sol y la lluvia. Mis ojos miran el
horizonte sin ver la recatafila de edificaciones que no me permiten apreciar la
belleza de mis propios sueños. No quiero encontrarme con mis propios recuerdos,
¿cuáles serán? Yo no lo sé a ciencia cierta. A veces los recuerdos nos sumergen
en realidades que impiden que comprendamos mejor el presente que nos toca vivir,
mientras los vivimos… Y sin embargo mis ojos están siempre llenos de una
nostalgia con la que no quiero encontrarme. Todos aquellos que hemos hablado
simplemente porque, en un momento determinado, tenemos la necesidad de hablar
con alguien, hemos callado en el mismo instante en que continuábamos sumidos en
el uso de la palabra. ¿Qué podríamos decir? No lo sé. Al ahogar la palabra, el
silencio se impone y el conocimiento se transforma en desconocimiento. Ante tal
situación, no queda más remedio que apechugar, si es que nuestro silencio nos
llevó más allá de lo que las sonoras expresiones de nuestra voz quisieron
llevarnos… Tengo miedo, me dijo mi otro yo cuando vio mi mirada perderse en el
laberinto interminable de las reflexiones mientras pensaba en la quietud que se
respiraba en el cuarto de los mil espejos donde sólo yo me acompañaba,
multiplicado en cada uno de esos inexistentes espejos que poblaban mi
imaginación cuales espejismos surgidos en el desierto campo donde las almas
llegan a cumplir sus rituales inaccesibles a individuos como yo, que me elevo
en la incomprensión de las sienes blanquecinas. Yo también tengo miedo, respondí
quedamente a no sé quién que me lo decía, sin darme cuenta que era yo mismo
quebrantado por esa sensación inquietante que suele desequilibrarnos en los
momentos menos oportunos… La incomprensión, me digo a mí mismo múltiples veces,
la incomprensión… ¡Qué importa ya lo que dijiste cuando no tenías que decir
nada! ¡Qué importa ya nada, nada!... Y la mirada seguía perdida en el laberinto
aquel del que no se puede salir porque tampoco se entró en momento alguno. ¿Cómo
estar sin estar en el preciso lugar e instante en que te encuentras ya en el
interior, sin saber por qué, sin comprender por qué?... Él -un muchacho
bastante joven-, estaba sentado al lado de su madre cuando llegó una señora que
caminaba ayudándose de un bastón. Todos los asientos estaban ocupados por
personas mayores. Y él no se paró, ni su madre le dijo nada. Uno de los
circunstantes se puso de pie para que la señora tomara asiento. Él y su madre
siguieron imperturbablemente sentados allí donde las sombras despiertan los más
oscuros presagios. Yo me perdí entre los claroscuros de las desesperadas horas
del ayer… Todo es presente en este futuro que nos toca vivir desde que estamos
aquí.
I'm immersed in thoughts that I don't know.
I left home as
usual. Today I do not look where carry me my tired steps. I'm immersed in
thoughts that I don't know. The streets where I am walking are hiding to the
rhythm of my footsteps. There is much loneliness in the vagaries of fate. And
in dreams with love, the abuse of Aphrodite moves happily... I just want to
leave behind what I don't want to carry in my backpack. Although one not always
leaves behind what does not want to take in the soul because the unwanted
remains beyond our most expensive wishes. Nobody is as clean as to throw the
first stone. And what one can finally leave behind, ends up waiting for us
later... I've looked at my around and live I can see the faces that cross my
back with eventful whips of pain always. Nothing makes imagine us concerns to
each one of the walkers - who roam these streets full of people at any time,
take with you... I'm in the library, all are reading or busy with computers
which provides for free the library. Here I find the tranquility that I don't
see in other places. I find curious that I have found an appropriate refuge
here, which is always full of people. I want to be here even if I bring my own
book to read (which already used to make when I was studying in San Marcos
University in Lima) or I simply put, such as time, to write the ideas that run
me endlessly, without giving away neatly in my computer. I feel accompanied but
do not talk with anyone. In an atmosphere as this no one is tucked into their
own affairs, all respects my solitude. They spend hours and are moving quickly in this bigger
city. I walk through the streets of Queens pondering my loneliness... The days are
a succession of alternating rain and Sun. My eyes look at the horizon without
seeing the all of those buildings that do not allow me to appreciate the beauty
of my own dreams. I don't want to find me with my own memories, what will be? I
don't know for sure. Sometimes memories immerse us in realities that prevent us
to better understand the present that we live, as we live them... And yet my
eyes are always filled with nostalgia that I don't find inside me. All those
who we've talked about simply because, at a certain moment, we need to talk to
someone, have become silent in the same instant that we continued in the use of
the word. What could we say? I don't know it. To choke the word, silence is
imposed and knowledge becomes ignorance. Faced with this situation, is not
obliged to take, if it is that our silence took us beyond what the sound
expressions of our voice wanted to take us... I am afraid, said me my other I
when he saw my eyes get lost in the labyrinth of endless reflections while
thinking in the stillness they breathed in the fourth thousand mirrors where I
was only accompanied by myself, multiplied in each of those non-existent
mirrors that populated my imagination which mirages in the desert camp where
souls come to meet their inaccessible to individuals like me rituals that I
raise in the misunderstanding of the white temples. I also have fear, I replied
quietly to I don't know who that told it me, without realizing that it was
myself broken by this unsettling sense that tends to unbalance us at the least
opportune moments... The misunderstanding, I say to myself multiple times,
misunderstanding... What matters and what you said when you didn't have to say
anything! What matters now nothing, nothing…! And the look was lost in the maze
we cannot leave because neither is entered at any time. How can be without
being in the precise place and instantly you are already inside, without
knowing why, without understanding why…? The young boy was sat beside his
mother when entered a lady who walked with the help of a cane. All the seats
were occupied by elderly people. He did not stop, and his mother told him
nothing. One of the bystanders stood up so that Lady took a seat. He and his
mother followed still sitting there where the shadows are darkest omens. I got
lost among the chiaroscuro of the desperate hours of yesterday... Everything is
present in this future that we live since we're here.