Me ha envuelto nuevamente el día a día de un trabajo en el que prácticamente no hacemos nada. Solamente lidiar con papeles administrativos y procesos burocráticos.
Podrán entonces ustedes disculparme: en estas condiciones se pierde inspiración.
Pero de repente aparecen esas cosas, esas obras, esos destellos, esos brotes de esperanza que te llevan a la luz.
Había leído miles de veces un poema que se titula como he titulado esta "entrada". Lo había visto como quien ve un árbol en su paso a casa o al trabajo todos los días. Pero un día, un día, sin que nada cambie, sin que nada haya alterado la relación entre tu paso y ese árbol, alcanzas a ver que privilegio es tenerlo en tu camino. De repente ves su magnifciencia, su belleza, su poder.
Esa última vez lo vi en un blog que sigo (miguelangelsantos) narrado por Sean Connery.
Les coloco pues en estas líneas la versión que Constantine Cavafy hizo de Ithaca:
- When you set sail for Ithaca,
- wish for the road to be long,
- full of adventures, full of knowledge.
- The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
- an angry Poseidon -- do not fear.
- You will never find such on your path,
- if your thoughts remain lofty, and your spirit
- and body are touched by a fine emotion.
- The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
- a savage Poseidon you will not encounter,
- if you do not carry them within your spirit,
- if your spirit does not place them before you.
- Wish for the road to be long.
- Many the summer mornings to be which with
- pleasure, with joy
- you will enter ports seen for the first time;
- stop at Phoenician markets,
- and purchase the fine goods,
- nacre and coral, amber and ebony,
- and exquisite perfumes of all sorts,
- the most delicate fragances you can find,
- to many Egyptian cities you must go,
- to learn and learn from the cultivated.
- Always keep Ithaca in your mind.
- To arrive there is your final destination.
- But do not hurry the voyage at all.
- It is better for it to last many years,
- and when old to rest in the island,
- rich with all you have gained on the way,
- not expecting Ithaca to offer you wealth.
- Ithaca has given you the beautiful journey.
- Without her you would not have set out on the road.
- Nothing more has she got to give you.
- And if you find her threadbare, Ithaca has not deceived you.
- Wise as you have become, with so much experience,
- you must already have understood what Ithacas mean
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