La enamorada - Alejandra Pizarnik - Soft tango

Flora Pizarnik (Avellaneda, April 29, 1936 – Buenos Aires, September 25, 1972), known by her pseudonym Alejandra Pizarnik, was an Argentine poet, essayist, and translator. In 1969, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 1971, a Fulbright Fellowship. On September 25, 1972, while spending a weekend away from the psychiatric clinic where she was hospitalized, Pizarnik committed suicide by ingesting fifty pills of a barbiturate commercially known as Seconal. Her work and poetry left a valuable legacy for Latin American literature. Faced with the gloomy mania for living, this hidden humor of living drags you along, Alejandra, don't deny it. Today you looked in the mirror and left sad, you were alone and the light roared, the air sang but your beloved didn't return You'll send messages, you'll smile you'll wave your hands, that's how he'll return your beloved, so beloved Do you hear the mad siren that stole him away the ship with foamy beards where laughter died Do you remember the last embrace? Oh, no more anguish Laugh into your handkerchief, cry out loud but close the doors of your face so they can't say later that that woman in love was you The days torment you the nights blame you life hurts so much, so much desperate, where are you going? Desperate, nothing more!