Here’s a poem that we read in my class and I loved. It’s in Spanish but I’m adding my own translation.
Yo no soy yo.
Soy este
que va a mi lado sin yo verlo,
que, a veces, voy a ver,
y que, a veces olvido.
El que calla, sereno, cuando hablo,
el que perdona, dulce, cuando odio,
el que pasea por donde no estoy,
el que quedará en pie cuando yo muera.
-Juan Ramón Jiménez
English:
I am not myself. I’m that which walks at my side without seeing it. That which sometimes I see, And that which sometimes, I forget. He who is quiet, serene, when I talk, He who forgives, sweetly, when I hate, He who passes places where I am not, He who will stay standing when I die.From: Alison R