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Immortality [Nemurire]

The graves await for us with gaping mouths like wells.
And we are bound for them on roads of different size,
As hypnotized by smoke run often the gazelles
To snakes with golden scales and glowing diamond eyes.

Love, hatred: life. But, lo, with lights of amber snows,
They left the clouds of stars and like a sweeping storm
Are plunging in the dark, and may bring here, who knows,
Another humankind – a worthless lousy swarm!

The lofty suns will lose the seeds of their hot womb
And then will freeze (they die?). We statues will have made,
So that the bronze can show, forever (but to whom?),
What means to linger on, in clothes sewn for parade.

We never think in void will end its fruitful trip
The Earth, when spins in space in its calamity.
At last will be itself a shining fleeting strip,
And then will die both life and Immortality.

poem by Al. O. Teodoreanu, translated by Octavian Cocoş
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