Nihil Novum




Don’t search for anything new, oh my song!
nothing is hidden beneath the skyscraper,
nothing in the machine that climbs to the sky,
nothing has changed since Solomon.

Very old are man and his passion
he keeps in the new day an ancient yearning,
under the new night as to insomnia
in the same way that my heart beats.

Don’t let yourself be deceived by new continents,
with their plants, their beasts and their people,
nor their songs with new accents.

Everything they say has already been said:
alone there remains us the air and its whim
of vague sounds carried by the wind.


Jose Coronel Urtrecho