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Full Consciousness
by Juan Ramón Jiménez

You are carrying me,
full consciousness,
god that has desires,
all through the world.
Here, in the third sea,
I almost hear your voice:
your voice, the wind,
filling entirely all movements;
eternal colors and eternal lights,
sea colors and sea lights.

Your voice of white fire
in the universe of water,
the ship, the sky,
marking out the roads with delight,
engraving for me
with a blazing light
my firm orbit:
a black body
with the glowing diamond
in its center.

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