When You Eyes Go to Bed Worn Out

Rosario Murillo
Nicaraguan
b. 1951

 

When your eyes go to bed worn out
with so much unending waiting
when the smile once more comes back to us
and vital still between us
by that time
over there beyond the old oak tree
in that street which my dreams keep watch over today
together we will remember
we will talk of the smell of weariness
we will retell each other the war.

Translation by Janet Brof

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