Nombrarte

No el poema de tu ausencia,

sólo un dibujo, una grieta en un muro,

algo en el viento, un sabor amargo.

-Alejandra Pizarnik, "Nombrarte"

My rough translation:

"Naming you"

Not the poem of your absence,

only a drawing, a crack in a wall,

something in the wind, a bitter taste.

Life

"[I]t is a salient feature of human life, as the novels present it, that it is lived only once, and in one direction."
-Martha Nussbaum, "Love's Knowledge"