Everything is consciousness

Here's today's selected poem (14th December), taken from the pictured 2001 collection, by the Argentinian poet Jorge Luis Borges ...

... everything is consciousness:


Everness

One thing does not exist: Oblivion.
God saves the metal and he saves the dross,
And his prophetic memory guards from loss
The moons to come, and those of evenings gone.

Everything is: the shadows in the glass
Which, in between the day’s two twilights, you
Have scattered by the thousands, or shall strew
Henceforward in the mirrors that you pass.

And everything is part of that diverse
Crystalline memory, the universe;
Whoever through its endless mazes wanders.

Hears door on door click shut behind his stride,
And only from the sunset’s farther side
Shall view at last the Archetypes and the Splendors.

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Jorge Luis Borges (1899 – 1986)
Translated from Spanish by Richard Wilbur

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