I am not I 

- Juan Ramon Jimenez

I am not I.

I am this one

Walking beside me whom I do not see,

Whom at times I manage to visit,

And whom at other times I forget;

The one who remains silent when I talk,

The one who forgives, sweet, when I hate,

The one who takes a walk where I am not,

The one who will remain standing when I die.

Selected Poems of Lorca & Jimenez, translated by Robert Bly, Beacon Press, 1973