Truest soulfelt love
dies agonizingly hard
and inflicts black sorrow
on all those affected.
She fights to maintain
an older order.
To balance the scales
and right the wrongs.
Not surrendering
to the torments
or hysterical rage.
But her actual death
is unalterably final.
First Edition Translation of Teselas by Carmen Crespo X111 César Simón Poetry Prixe 2016 Translated from Spanish by Robin Ouzman Hislop and Amparo Arrospíde