UNDER THE CANCER SIGN
Inmortal Crab you are, a perennial traveler,
Your clamps allow you, a timid one to drag.
Your rind, as a walking horseman’s armour,
It supports, here and now, an eternal battle.Nightwalking Crab, of vacillating step,
Between the lukewarm sand, with slow paw,
By the green dunes of wavering lines,
It is seen much more clumsy, to the lunar brillance.I observed to you then, and could not already separate,
My eyes from your eyes, of a bright-light colour,
And there you said to me, with a very trembling voice:“You do not move backwards, friend, never, you must walk,
It doesn’t matter where you go, you, nomadic spirit,
Because will be always of Cancer, the Pain of Changing.”NOTE: “Crab’s Inmortality”
When I was very small (and very young), I listened to this sentence, from my father’s mouth. He said to me specially when was seeing me absorbed in thought: “About what do you think, about the Crab’s Inmortality?” Soon, when I learned to read, at the very beginning, I knew thus this Khefer/Hprr/Hprì/Kepri the Egyptian Scarab (Beetle) God, was a Symbol of Life and was related to inmortality, to become, to be, to exist. Wrongly, I associated it with the crab. Finally, when I was taking conscience, from what closely I was / am, from that symbolic crustacean, because I was born “Under the Cancer Sign”, in the Month of July, I decided to put those concepts in the preceding poem.(Julio Enrique Brugos 16/03/05)