Poetry is untranslatable, like the whole art.
As much as I can
I humour the shadows
But when they narrow
They are no longer mine
And when they widen
They're wrapped in the impossible.
Yet, not to get lost
I dip my feet in water
Wet the path
And slide.
--- Michael Iskandar Haddad (1919 - 1996)
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