La Filosófica

My warning does not intend
For you to be as I want
Nor to get in between seeing each other
To teach you my experience
You have been raised with the essence
Of the water from your drinker.

Life is a doctrine
The whole world its temple
And you will find with time
Your knowledge well matured
It will be when you have pronounced
The right phrase as an example.

Leaving traces in life
Are pretensions of man
If he has not achieved that his name
Remains engraved in time
It is because he has only built
Huts of straw and adobe.

Of course straw and adobe
At a special moment
Constitute a foundation
Within the construction
You should not build a big house
Without checking the foundations.

You have to do neat embroidery
On the tablecloth of life
But not for display
And then keep it stored
A starched tablecloth
I prefer the one with food.

Life is the great school
And in the classroom of knowledge
Do not be surprised
That from a well-born tree
Crooked branches come out
As they have bent while growing.

Pretentiousness is not worth it
Excessive arrogance
The reason well understood
Of the best thought-out man
If after you have entered
You only then seek the way out.

Having a relative passage
And despite other criteria
Do not look for the remedy
Because this evil is terrible
You will not find total peace
Not even in the peace of the cemetery.