Manuel Flores is going to die.
That is common currency;
dying is a habit
what do people know.
Tomorrow the bullet will come
and with the bullet oblivion;
said the wise Merlin:
to die is to have been born.
And yet it hurts
say goodbye to life,
that usual thing,
so sweet and so well known.
I look at my hands at dawn,
I look at the veins in the hands;
with surprise I look at them
as if they were strangers.
How much in its way
these eyes will have seen!
Who knows what they will see
after Christ judges me.
Manuel Flores is going to die.
That is common currency;
dying is a habit
what do people know.
Jorge Luis Borges
