Friendship

Friendship, as others understood it
was a long conversation
about the use of time
making the days last.

Friendship was the enjoyment of words
and a chess of the memory
ending games of pleasure
to play with gestures and will.

Friendship, that old vagrant currency
is proffered now by the elderly
the sick, animals, drunks and mad people.

Men know nothing about it
the centuries’ fugitive.

Traslated from Spanish by Rowena Hill