Agradezo (gl – en)

Agradézolle á vida as pedras e a xiada
As cicatrices dos troncos feridos
A respiración lenta das plantas
O eterno leito omnipresente do río 
As isobaras curvas e pechadas 
Por onde me perdo e atopo
O medo ao salto e á nudez 
E a ousadía do aire frío no peito espido
A incansable conversa do vento
Cos dedos flexibles das árbores
As pozas que crea a marea
Cando miserable e mollado eu
se ensancha a miña patria
(Pecho os ollos e sigo o fío de néboa
Reenchendo as engurras da terra)
A soidade onde se desorienta o cego compás
Agradézoche vida que mesmo andando perdido
Sen sabelo xa estaba camiñando de cara

Cos ollos pechos pídolle perdón á vida 
polo millón e medio de veces 
Nas que mar adentro lonxe deste areal
me arrastrou polas pernas o desespero

Perdóame vida por ter perdido pé tantas veces 
Por cada día que impotente quixen 
regalar meu destino, botarme ao esquencemento 
como nun bálsamo de chapapote morno

Agradézolle á vida as uñas que sangran 
e os labios que rezan

Grateful

I thank life for the stones and the frost
The scars of the injured trunks
The slow respiration of plants
The eternal omnipresent riverbed
For curved and closed isobars
Where I get lost and found myself again
For the fear of jumping and nudity
And the boldness of cold air on my bare chest
The tireless conversation of the wind
With the flexible fingers of the trees
The pools created by the tide
When myself miserable and wet
my homeland expands
(I close my eyes and follow the thread of fog
Filling the wrinkles of the earth)
The loneliness where the blind compass is disoriented
I thank you life that even being lost
Unknowingly I was already walking ahead

I close my eyes and ask life forgiveness 
For the million and a half times
out in the open ocean, far from this sand
desperation dragged me down my legs 

Forgive me life for having lost my footing so many times
For every day I impotently wanted 
to give away my destiny, to throw myself into oblivion 
like in a lukewarm pitch balm

I thank life for the nails that bleed and the lips that pray