| Pablo Neruda -Oda al pan- |
| lunes, 21 de marzo de 2005 |
Oda al pan
Pan,
con harina,
agua
y fuego
te levantas.
espeso y leve,
recostado y redondo,
repites el vientre
de la madre,
equinoccial
germinación
terrestre.
Pan,
qué fácil
y qué profundo eres:
en la bandeja blanca
de la panadería
se alargan tus hileras
como utensilios, platos
o papeles,
y de pronto,
la ola
de la vida,
la conjunción del germen
y del fuego,
creces, creces
de pronto
como
cintura, boca, senos,
colinas de la tierra,
vidas,
sube el calor, te inunda
la plenitud, el viento
de la fecundidad,
y entonces
se inmoviliza tu color de oro,
y cuando se preñaron
tus pequeños vientres,
la cicatriz morena
dejó su quemadura
en todo tu dorado
sistema de hemisferios.
Ahora,
intacto,
eres
acción de hombre,
milagro repetido,
voluntad de la vida.
Oh pan de cada boca,
no
te imploraremos,
los hombres
no somos
mendigos
de vagos dioses
o de ángeles oscuros:
del mar y de la tierra
haremos pan,
plantaremos de trigo
la tierra y los planetas,
el pan de cada boca,
de cada hombre,
en cada día,
llegará porque fuimos
a sembrarlo
y a hacerlo,
no para un hombre sino
para todos,
el pan, el pan
para todos los pueblos
y con él lo que tiene
forma y sabor de pan
repartiremos:
la tierra,
la belleza,
el amor,
todo eso
tiene sabor de pan,
forma de pan,
germinación de harina,
todo
nació para ser compartido,
para ser entregado,
para multiplicarse.
Por eso, pan,
si huyes
de la casa del hombre,
si te ocultan,
te niegan,
si el avaro
te prostituye,
si el rico
te acapara,
si el trigo
no busca surco y tierra,
pan,
no rezaremos,
pan,
no mendigaremos,
lucharemos por ti con otros hombres,
con todos los hambrientos,
por todos los ríos y el aire
iremos a buscarte,
toda la tierra la repartiremos
para que tú germines,
y con nosotros
avanzará la tierra:
el agua, el fuego, el hombre
lucharán con nosotros.
iremos coronados
con espigas,
conquistando
tierra y pan para todos,
y entonces
también la vida
tendrá forma de pan,
será simple y profunda,
innumerable y pura.
Todos los seres
tendrán derecho
a la tierra y a la vida,
y así será el pan de mañana,
el pan de cada boca,
sagrado,
consagrado,
porque será el producto
de la más larga y dura
lucha humana.
No tiene alas
la victoria terrestre:
tiene pan en sus hombros,
y vuela valerosa
liberando la tierra
como una panadera
conducida en el viento.
Ode to bread
Bread,
you rise
from flour,
water
and fire.
Dense or light,
flattened or round,
you duplicate
the mother's
rounded womb,
and earth's
twice-yearly
swelling.
How simple
you are, bread,
and how profound!
You line up
on the baker's
powdered trays
like silverware or plates
or pieces of paper
and suddenly
life washes
over you,
there's the joining of seed
and fire,
and you're growing, growing
all at once
like
hips, mouths, breasts,
mounds of earth,
or people's lives.
The temperature rises, you're overwhelmed
by fullness, the roar
of fertility,
and suddenly
your golden color is fixed.
And when your little wombs
were seeded,
a brown scar
laid its burn the length
of your two halves'
toasted
juncture.
Now,
whole,
you are
mankind's energy,
a miracle often admired,
the will to live itself.
O bread familiar to every mouth,
we will not kneel before you:
men
do no
implore
unclear gods
or obscure angels:
we will make our own bread
out of sea and soil,
we will plant wheat
on our earth and the planets,
bread for every mouth,
for every person,
our daily bread.
Because we plant its seed
and grow it
not for one man
but for all,
there will be enough:
there will be bread
for all the peoples of the earth.
And we will also share with one another
whatever has
the shape and the flavor of bread:
the earth itself,
beauty
and love--
all
taste like bread
and have its shape,
the germination of wheat.
Everything
exists to be shared,
to be freely given,
to multiply.
This is why, bread,
if you flee
from mankind's houses,
if they hide you away
or deny you,
if the greedy man
pimps for you or
the rich man
takes you over,
if the wheat
does not yearn for the furrow and the soil:
then, bread,
we will refuse to pray:
bread
we will refuse to beg.
We will fight for you instead, side by side with the others,
with everyone who knows hunger.
We will go after you
in every river and in the air.
We will divide the entire earth among ourselves
so that you may germinate,
and the earth will go forward
with us:
water, fire, and mankind
fighting at our side.
Crowned
with sheafs of wheat,
we will win
earth and bread for everyone.
Then
life itself
will have the shape of bread,
deep and simple,
immeasurable and pure.
Every living thing
will have its share
of soil and life,
and the bread we eat each morning,
everyone's daily bread,
will be hallowed
and sacred,
because it will have been won
by the longest and costliest
of human struggles.
This earthly Victory
does not have wings:
she wears bread on her shoulders instead.
Courageously she soars,
setting the world free,
like a baker
born aloft on the wind.Etiquetas: Pablo Neruda |
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