The Park (1999)

 
VIII.

Existing all within yourself –
what a responsibility towards the world it is!

But what exactly is “within yourself”? Can it be
that you possess the very thing
that you’re in fact a part of, or can
the root be said to own
the soil it clings so deeply to,
or can the stone possess the rocky bed
that’s given it its form and shape? Yourself
is not the spirit, not the body – it’s
another entity, combining them so that they can exist at all –
it is the higher point that looks them over,
it is the farther place that they have headed for. Yourself, it is
the single stone atop the pyramid,
the cast of clay with which you’ll mould a shore,
the lands you fight for with the waters and the night.

Ever more and more,
and ever more completely all within yourself –
astride your shoulders like astride a horse
Nature overtowers you as much as twice your body height.

tr. by Peyo Karpuzov