Amor, Mi Gran Amor
Alberto Cortez
Love, My Great Love
Don't you know where I put my glasses?...
I've been getting distracted lately!...
Is it because of the spell of your eyes
or perhaps because I'm getting older?...
Let's see, what do you think of this poem?...
Have you seen how beautiful the evening is?...
Why is it that all my schemes
break apart just by looking at you?...
You have endured for many years
my hours of sadness and joy...
the harsh reality and the fantasies
and a wide repertoire of quirks.
You summon my desires and my verses,
my tastes, my friends, my absences
and you turn the most adverse moments
into happiness, just with your presence.
Love, my great love,
my good love, my shelter.
Love, my adventurous love,
marvelous love, I love you.
You are much more than I am
and where I go, when I leave...
Love, unchanging love,
my luminous great love.