Más Lejos, Más Cerca

Further Away, Closer

Más Lejos, Más Cerca

Further Away, CloserMás Lejos, Más Cerca

Someone woke upAlguien se despertaba
thinking that the fogpensando que la niebla
was taking special careponía un especial cuidado
to hide the crime,en ocultar el crimen,
from there came a maddeningde allí salía un enloquecedor
petroleum vapor.vaho a petróleo.
It was on Wall Street.Estaba en Wall Street.

It was me who understoodEra yo quien comprendía
peering into the fogasomado en la niebla
that it was the crime disguisedque aquello era el crimen disfrazado
as concrete with windows.de hormigón con ventanas.

That it enlargedQue se agrandaba
losing the idea of its heightperdiendo idea de su altura
seeing them intervene armedviéndolos intervenir armados
towards the sky of others.hacia el cielo de otros.

Wall Street blood bank,Wall Street banca de sangre,
spider with tentacles that coldly spinaraña de tentáculos que hilan fríamente
the death of others.la muerte de otros.

Towns that do not resignPueblos que no se resignan
to die without a trail of glory and joy;a morir sin estela de gloria y alegría;
that do not resignque no se resignan
to already want to be past in life.a querer ya en vida ser pasado.

It was me who heardEra yo quien oía
a restless bone crunchun crujido de huesos sin reposo
trying to escapetratando de escapar
from those secret accountsde aquellas cuentas secretas
where they were buried.donde fueron enterrados.

Calculated theftsRobos calculados
by your diplomacy of horrorpor tu diplomacia del horror
that would like armed intervention,que quisiera la intervención armada,
even in the stars.hasta en los astros.

But still burns through AmericaPero aún arde por América
the pulse of agonizing nationsel pulso de agónicas naciones
that shout at me with the same languageque me gritan con un mismo lenguaje
plotting their mortal shaking.tramando su mortal sacudimiento.

So one day your 13 horizontalsAsí un día tus 13 horizontales
will see vanishverán desvanecerse
in a liberating flame of oilen una libertadora llama de petróleo
ignited byencendida por
towns that do not resign...pueblos que no se resignan...
...that do not resign....que no se resignan.