Geography of Hope II

Cierra los ojos y oye cantar la luz:
El mediodía anida en tu tímpano

Cierra los ojos y ábrelos:
No hay nadie ni siquiera tú mismo
Lo que no es piedra es luz

Close your eyes and hear the song of the light:
Noon takes shelter in your inner ear

Close your eyes and open them:
There is nobody not even yourself
Whatever is not stone is light

Poetry by Octavio Paz, winner of the 1990 Nobel prize for literature.
Taken from the Sierra Club book "Baja California and the Geography of Hope" by Joseph Wood Krutch and Eliot Porter.