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serene ([personal profile] serene) wrote2007-04-26 01:17 am

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Llego con tres heridas: La del amor; la de la muerte; la de la vida.
Con tres heridas viene: La de la vida; la del amor; la de la muerte.
Con tres heridas yo: La de la vida; la de la muerta; la del amor.


[For many years, I mistranslated this in my head. I thought "heridas" meant "heritages", which would be "herencias" or some such. So what it means is this, but where you read "wounds", substitute "heritages", and I think it's beautiful either way.]


I come with three wounds: The one of[from] love, the one of death, the one of life.
With three wounds he[she/it] comes: The one of life, the one of love, the one of death.
I, with three wounds: The one of life, the one of death, the one of love.