LET THE BOAT SAIL FREE
Free the boat to the whims of the waves.
Leave control to the wind, let rudder and sail
expand their wings. No end has the world.
Unknown shores endlessly invite us
where life can freshly start, so let the wind
bring us where it wishes when it likes.
Let the fields change to forest and to rocks
that tower above as we go by. Let smoke
rise from the huts whether nature brings the sun
or tempest from on high. Don’t ever hope
to commandeer your sails. Go freely with
the waves wherever wind and current lead.
Do you ever know truly what you seek?
Have you ever caught what you have hunted?
Don’t you reap the evil while you spread the good?
Don’t you stumble on the question that you ask?
What you’ve longed for, thinking that it smiles at you,
have you prepared the way yourself and won?
Let the waves break just as they wish,
let dizziness guide the blind heart,
and if the tempest roars and clouds approach,
know sunshine somewhere laughs along a shore,
and if the sad tears flood your soul
somewhere a secret joy always awaits for you.
Libros Libertad 