DECEPTION

by Rafael Alberti (Translated by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno)

To Original Spanish Text

Someone behind you, at your back,
sealing your eyes with words.

Behind you, bodiless,
souless.
Smoky voice of dream,
cut.
Smoky voice,
cut.

With words, false glass.

Blind, down a tunnel of gold,
of evil mirrors,
you'll meet up
with death underground.

You there alone, with death,
underground.

And someone behind you, at your back,
always.

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