Poem Past Present Future-José Saramago in English

Poem

Past Present Future

(José Saramago in English)

I was.

But what I was, I do not remember

Thousand layers of dust covering, veil,

My forty faces unequal,

so rent by the time and macareos

I am.
But what I am is so little:
Frog escaped the pond, which jumped
And when giving the jump, as he could,
The air blown from another world, it did broke out.

Remains to be seen, (if that I lack),what I will be:
A face recomposed before the end.
A batrachian song, really hoarse
A life that passes, more or less ..