Soledad Mirón Díaz – The impossibility of forgetting

Soledad Mirón Díaz – Business relations manager IT department. IE University .

Reading:

The impossibility of forgetting (El imposible olvido) by Andrés Mirón from the book Autumn Benalixa (1941 – 2004).

You ask me to forget you and what I forget
is to do just what you ask me.
In the ice of my life, you decide.
I decide in the honey of what’s been lived.

Forget you, why? What hurt you so
that you say goodbye to me with such indifference?
If perhaps my fire doesn’t suit you,
then neither does your ice suit me.

I fear hurting you by saying that I still kiss
the silk of your voice and am enraptured
remembering the brilliance of our story.

and this is how I forget to forget you.
Now, while I live, I will live to love you,
because you live forever in my memory.

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Me pides que te olvide y lo que olvido
es hacer eso mismo que me pides.
En la hiel de mi vida tú decides.
Yo decido en la miel de lo vivido.
Olvidarte ¿por qué? ¿Qué te ha dolido
que así de indiferente me despides?
Si acaso con mi fuego no coincides,
tampoco con tu hielo yo coincido.

Temo herirte diciéndote que aún beso
la seda de tu voz y me embeleso
recordando el fulgor de nuestra historia.

Y así es como me olvido de olvidarte.
Ya, mientras viva, viviré de amarte,
pues vives para siempre en mi memoria.