| Se fue tornando púrpura a su paso
| It turned purple in its wake
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| un camino inexplorado
| an uncharted path
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| él no lo advirtió.
| he didn't notice it.
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| Llovió sobre su frente y sediento,
| He rained on his forehead from him and thirsty,
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| consumió el agua del tiempo
| he consumed the water of time
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| él no lo advirtió.
| he didn't notice it.
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| Anduvo veinte años sin saberlo sin dolerse,
| He walked twenty years without knowing it without hurting,
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| la mirada rota sin ver el color
| the broken look without seeing the color
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| de la distancia que se hizo familiar
| from the distance that became familiar
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| como las piedras que hirieron su carne
| like the stones that wounded his flesh
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| como el polvo del camino aquel
| like the dust of that road
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| que aún después de haber andado
| that even after having walked
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| convirtióse en un sendero árido y cruel.
| it became an arid and cruel path.
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| No pudo más y exánime rodó
| He couldn't take it anymore and lifelessly rolled
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| sobre la arena casi delirante
| on the almost delirious sand
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| como alucinado divisó
| as hallucinated he saw
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| el gris contorno de un paraje
| the gray outline of a place
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| era la orilla del mundo
| it was the edge of the world
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| en la que jamás pudo reposar | in which he could never rest |