Amanecer
Alfredo Zitarrosa
Dawn
(Milonga song)
A very slow wind is coming
from the sea, where will it go...
It brings a humid perfume
from another city...
The breath of the wind seems
to grow, and warms... dawn.
The shadows illuminate
the light, April sun.
His bleeding head, in the east,
when rising,
like a child, my dear, appears
and already grows,
the earth... rocks him.
When your child is born,
he will also be born,
from your warm womb
and his forehead will be...
like a rising sun,
an answer and question
that will be born... together.
He will grow up along with a thousand others
like him,
who in the same minute of April,
when born,
by opening a wound, in the warmth of love,
received life.
From other men he will learn the name
later...
and if he learns love with pain,
he will have
even in the most distant place, a brother,
that sun... in his hands.
A very slow wind is coming
from the sea, where will it go...
It brings a humid perfume
from another city...
The breath of the wind seems
to grow, and warms... dawn.
(Punctuation, versification, and spelling are by Alfredo Zitarrosa.)
