The traveller (El caminante)

From my Dad’s book Urgent poetry (Poesía de urgencia).  TGIF!

The traveller (El caminante)

The best way I could say this is that you were like a road

unexpectedly abandoned

when I became its only traveller.

I took the course and the shadow and we became one,

road and traveller.

Forward went our steps.

You would suddenly interrupt the harmony

of flowers and songs

that bordered the road

when you would look back.

Then you would scare away the dreams

that preceded the joyful stride

of the traveller.