Secrets
By Viggo Mortensen

Oceans take our secrets
what we don’t want to see or smell anymore.
We feel anonymous
we feel clean
when we throw our past away.
It will wash, we think.
It will sink
it will drift far from this shore.
It will disappear.
Maybe the fish will eat our words
maybe lost or spurned loves
will help deep-sea feathery green plants grow.

Secretos

El océano se lleva nuestros secretos,
lo que no queremos ver, ni oler, nunca más.
Nos sentimos limpios cuando arrojamos
lejos de nosotros el pasado.
Se lavará, pensamos, se hundirá.
La corriente se lo llevará lejos de esta orilla.
Desaparecerá.
Tal vez nuestras palabras alimenten a los peces.
Tal vez el amor perdido o abandonado haga crecer
frondosas y verdes praderas submarinas.

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Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. (October 20, 1958) is an American actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter. He made his film debut in Peter Weir’s 1985 thriller Witness, and subsequently appeared in many notable films of the 1990s. Mortensen grew in fame in the early 2000s with his role as Aragorn in the epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings. In 2005, he won critical acclaim for David Cronenberg’s crime thriller A History of Violence. Two years later, another Cronenberg film Eastern Promises (2007) earned him further critical acclaim. A third teaming with Cronenberg in A Dangerous Method (2011) resulted in a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor nomination.

Aside from acting, his other artistic pursuits include fine arts, photography, poetry, and music. In 2002, he founded the Perceval Press to publish the works of little-known artists and authors.