Translate me

Imagine investing time trying to read someone,
Reading them like a book in a foreign language-
Taking 3 steps back everytime you translate a word.
Because you have a phrase, a sentence, and then a paragraph to understand.
Imagine after all that effort,
You find out that there is a translated version right at the last few pages.
That effort that well, paid off but unnecessary.
Imagine learning a person this way,
And then finding out the most quintessential part, the corazon-
Is taken.
By another who has long understood them.