Good intentions
Luis Benítez
Behind a gentle smile 
and in a cloud of delicate gestures 
the sonorous brain that unlooses 
one by one its healing raptures 
concerned not so much with 
the impression they create 
over there, in the outside 
than by the drowsiness it indulges itse1f. 
A man, a woman, a child, 
an old man, a youngster well meant 
an ever reckless incarnation 
returning over and over again 
and is the same flesh of helplessness 
which has discovered long ago 
the brilliant possibilities 
that the free circulation 
of its ethereal sermons 
offers to its insides. 
The best one is the silence that followed: 
after the illuminated verb 
which modified the world's ferocities 
to fit them into the stark poor concept: 
that self-indulged silence, sure of itself 
satisfied, that exhibits and meditates 
an impassive sun, the stubborn regularity 
of its planets, inane a fleck of dust itself 
unaware of the furious universe.

Luis Benítez
De "Selected Poems" - (antología poética, selección y traducción de Verónica Miranda)
Ed. Luz Bilingual Publishing, Inc. Los Angeles, EE.UU., 1996.

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