Monologue (Paz)

Under the eroded columns,

Between dreams and nothingness,

The sound of your name

Interspersed into my sleepless hours.

Your long, light red hair,

It's the lightning of summer,

With the power of sweet rape

Undulating in the night.1

The dark running water in dreams

Gushing through the ruins,

From nothingness constitutes you:

The painful braids, which have been forgotten.

Wet shore in the night,

Sideways and pat one piece

Sleepwalking in the ocean, see nothing

Octavio Paz (31 March 1914 – 19 April 1998) was a Mexican poet and essayist. Born in Mexico City. Paz's creations blend Latin American native culture with the literary traditions of the Spanish department, inheriting the metaphysical recourse of European modernism and the belief in the creation of a realm of freedom through language. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his works full of passion, broad vision, permeated with the wisdom of perception and embodying perfect humanitarianism".