What is the meaning

F.E.

What is the meaning of Time for them who fall

Seconds before the peace treaty is signed,

Like swimmers drowned in sight of the indifferent bank?

Or for those who commit suicide, unaware

Of the forthcoming letter of release

Of the redundant pardon?

What is the meaning of Love for those for whom

The marketable graces of beauty have been withheld

Since the day they were born?

What is the meaning of Reason for those

Whose minds tarry not in high dilemmas or find pleasure

Leisurely roaming through the sumptuous labyrinths of knowledge

But ram like a piece of dead wood against the almighty citadel

Of Want?

What is the meaning of God for those who perish

At the hands of those who invoke Him

Yet calling Him by another name?

What is the meaning of Light for those who dwell

In the House of Darkness, trusting the staggering weight

Of their bewilderment to the shaky foundation of

White sticks and faithful dogs?

What is the meaning of Laughter for those who endure in silence

That of their torturers?

What is the meaning of Life for those who undergo it like

A slow operation carried out by malignant, callous

Gods upon the delicate tissue of their dreams

Only to see these born dead inside a placenta where the evil of

this World bursts forth to drench and drown their last remaining hope?

What is the meaning of Justice for those who seek it in vain

Or having found it die at its hand?

Yes, and what is the meaning of Poetry for those whose eyes

Can read not these lines, but only the drudgery of their lives

Inscribed on their cheeks by tears falling down in patterns

Of doleful syntax?

Zer esan nahi du Denborak / bake-ituna sinatu baino segundu batzuk lehenxeago erortzen direnentzat, / erribera ezaxolen bistan itotako igerilarien antzera? / Edo suizidatzen direnentzat, jakin gabe / askatasuna iragartzen dien mezua, / iristear zaien barkamendua / bidean dela?/ Zer esan nahi du Maitasunak / edertasunaren dohain salerosgarriak / jaiotzako egunetik beretik / ukatu egin zaizkienentzat? / Zer esan nahi du Arrazoinak / adimenezko dilema eregietan pausu aurkitu beharrean, / jakituriaren labyrinto arranditsuetan barrena nasaiki ibili ordez, / egur puska hil baten antzera Gabeziaren zitadela oropoteretsuaren kontra / talkaka bizi behar dutenentzat? / Zer esan nahi du Jainkoak / Hari beste izen batekin deituz Haren izenean heriotza banatzen dutenen eskuetan bizia galtzen dutenentzat? / Zer esan nahi du Argiak / euren durduzaduraren pisu kordokatsua makila xurien eta txakur fidelen oinarri makalean sustengatuz / Ilunbearen Etxea habitatzen dutentzat? / Zer esan nahi du Irriak / euren torturatzaileena ixilik nozitu behar dutenentzat? / Zer esan nahi du Bizitzak / jainko maltzur, kupidagabe batzuek euren ametsen irazki delikatuan obratutako ebakuntza bat bezala eramaten dutenentzat, / amets hoiek umontzi batean hilik jaiotzen ikusteko / zeinetan mundu honetako gaizki guztiak eztanda eginik beren azken itxaropena trenpatu eta itotzen baitu? / Zer esan nahi du Justiziak / haren bila alferrik lehiatzen direnentzat / edota aurkitu ondoan haren eskuz peritzen direnentzat? / Bai, eta zer esan nahi du Poesiak lerro hauek irakurtzeko gauza ez direnentzat, / eta bai aldiz beren bizitzaren miseria / masailetan behera erortzen zaizkien malkoek sintaxi oinazetsuz / izkribaturiko lerroetan?