May I Never Die, May I Never Disappear.

I am drunk, crying, filled with grief,
Thinking, speaking,
And this I finde inside:
May I never die,
May I never disappear.
There, where there is no death,
There, where death is conquered,
Let it be there that I go.
May I never die,
May I never disappear.

Ms. "Cantares mexicanos," fol. 17 v.
NEZAHUALCOYOTL
Trece Poetas del Mundo Azteca
Miguel Leon-Portilla