PAUL DURCAN  É um dos poetas irlandeses contemporâneos que mais gosto (logo a seguir a Seamus Heaney). A sua poesia é feita de ternura e amargura, memórias e histórias cintilantes do quotidiano. Foi cantor rock. É um mestre, que já aqui esteve várias vezes na Tradução. E volta a estar, com este poema.

The Difficulty That Is Marriage

We disagree to disagree, we divide, we differ;
Yet each night, as I lie in bed beside you
And you are far away curled up in sleep
I array the moonlit ceiling with a mosaic of question-marks;
How was it I was so lucky to have ever met you ?
I am no brave pagan proud of my mortality,
Yet gladly on this changeling earth I should live for ever
If it were with you, my sleeping friend.
I have my troubles and I shall always have them
but I should rather live with you  for ever
Than exchange my troubles for a changeless kingdom.
But I do not put you on a pedestal or throne;
You must have your faults, but I do not see them.
If it were with you, I shall live for ever.



(post escrito ao som de Detail For Paul, de Durrutti Column)