El Alpinista

The Climber

El Alpinista

I never imagined, mountain,No imaginé, montaña,
that one dayque algún día
your rock would let me down,tu roca iba a fallarme,
the one I thought was diamond,la que creí diamante,
impenetrable and pure,impenetrable y pura,
I never imagined that dayno imaginé ese día
and I climbed up determined,y escalé decidido,
without vertigo, your height.sin vértigos, tu altura.

I never imaginedNo imaginé
the exact dimension,la dimensión exacta,
or the weight of my burdenni el peso de mi fardo
that I naively wantedque ingenuamente quise
to carry to the summit,llevar hasta la cima,
to the highest place,hasta el sitio más alto,
and let go of my tiesy soltar mis amarras
once and for all.definitivamente.

I spared noNo escatimé
efforts or sacrifices,ni esfuerzos ni renuncias,
nor risks or values,ni riesgos ni valores,
nor possible pains;ni posibles dolores;
I couldn't seeno pude ver
that I was naivelyque ingenuamente estaba
climbing a hurdleescalando un escollo
of quicksand,de arena movediza,
incapable of solidifying,incapaz de fraguarse,
of appreciating the stepde agradecer el paso
of this bold climberde este audaz alpinista
who left his valleyque abandonó su valle
just to kisspor besar simplemente
your thick hairtu espesa cabellera
and found in the breezey fundar en la brisa
the simplest caress.la más simple caricia.

You understood nothing,No comprendiste nada,
mountain of mirages,montaña de espejismos,
you didn't value the dreamno valoraste el sueño
of climbing your slope.de escalar tu ladera.
You crack, you slip away,Te agrietas, te me pierdes,
you shrink, you dissolve,te achicas, te disuelves,
and I sense at your peaky presiento en tu cima
that the wind little by littleque el viento poco a poco
is going to mess up your height,va a despeinar tu altura,
is going to clear the mist:va a disipar la bruma:
descending is the riskdescender es el riesgo
that the climber takes.que corre el alpinista.