320. Mikel Laboa

TXORIA-TXORI

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Hegoak ebaki banizkio

nerea izango zen,

ez zuen aldegingo.

Bainan, honela

ez zen gehiago txoria izango

eta nik...

xoria nuen maite.

............Si l'hi hagués tallat les ales

............hauria sigut meu,

............no s'hauria escapat.

............Però així,

............hauria deixat d'ésser ocell.

............I jo...

............Jo el que estimava era l'ocell.

..................If I had cut his wings

..................he would have been mine,

..................he would not have escaped.

..................But like this,

..................he would have stopped being a bird.

..................And I...

..................That I loved was the bird.

MIKEL LABOA

15/6/1934 - 1/12/2008