Oh captain, my captain: from a poem by Walt Whitman

Sinopsis: "Oh Capitan, mi capitan: desde un poema de Walt Whitman." Un poema, en inglés, que escribí para un tipo de capitán muy distinto al de Whitman.

Número de palabras: 439

Clasificación: B

Género: Poema

Comentario: Si logro hacerme tiempo pronto, haré una traducción. Por lo mientras me disculpo con aquellos que no manejen el inglés. 

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Oh captain, my captain

You’re so proud of us

And so hopeful

Oh captain my captain

You’re so full of faith in us

And thus don’t see how full of shit you are too

Oh captain, my captain

You want to protect us from war

And don’t see how tainted we already are

Oh captain, my captain

You think we’re full of light

And don’t realize that cruelty is inherent to us

To us soldiers in this land of growth

Oh captain my captain

You think so good of us

And don’t see how bad we’ve fallen already

In this war that is life

Pain is more natural than love

And we rot to gun powder

And bleed from open wounds

That our own allies left open

Oh captain, my captain

We’re not as pure as you think we are

You wanted to avoid teaching us about war

You wanted to conceal the pain

To erase the screams, to hide the world

You wanted our happiness, freedom, and smiles

So you lied, lied, lied

You yelled at us and got us deaf to noise

You distracted our sight, blinding us from truth

You grabbed us tight and acted cruel

So we would think that the worse would come from you

But oh captain, my dear captain

We were so blind and deaf and senseless

We didn’t saw the real pain getting closer

Some of us didn’t realize

Some of us were wounded

Because we trusted you

And each other

Oh captain, my captain

If you knew

The pain came from within

From our own trenches

My own mates became so blind

They confused one another with the enemy

Oh captain my captain

Blood fell everywhere

Oh captain, my captain

Screams were heard again

Oh captain, my captain

Everything was happening at once

And it was sad and it hurt

Thank god that some of them

Were senseless enough

That they did not feel the pain

But when they start

To feel their heart beat again

When they feel their skin again

And see the negative space where limbs once were

And smell the rotting odor of their own skin

Putrefying since the battle they didn’t realize was happening

Because of that glorious anesthesia of yours

They’ll cry

And oh captain, my captain

You were right there

Oh captain my captain

You were right there

Making us forget the world

You were right there before we fell

And oh captain, my captain

You didn’t lift up your arms to catch us.