A Sabbath Poem (Neruda)

      from KEEPING STILL
      ~ by Pablo Neruda

      If we were not single-minded
      about keeping our lives moving,
      and for once could do nothing,
      perhaps a huge silence
      might interrupt this sadness
      of never understanding ourselves
      and of threatening ourselves with death.

(from Extravagaria, Pablo Neruda, transl. Alistair Reid, Noonday Press, 2001)