Brotherhood by Octavio Paz

Brotherhood

by Octavio Paz

I am a man: little do I last
and the night is enormous.
But I look up:
the stars write.
Unknowing I understand:
I too am written,
and at this very moment
someone spells me out.

First Published in Octavio Paz: Collected Poems, 1987. Translated by Eliot Weinberger.