Jacinto Cenobio

Alfredo Zitarrosa Alfredo Zitarrosa

Hyacinth Cenobio

(Ran)

In the Capital, I found it in a market,
with his mecapal, unloading a cart;
I told him: -Godfather, I was looking for him;
He took a drink of wine and thought.

He told me: - I was going to ask you a favor, godson,
Let him tell no one* that he has found me;
that I no longer want to go back there,
Finally I don't even have anywhere to go.**

Your godmother, Trenidad, died***
The children grew up, where are they?
I lost the harvest, I burned the hut,
Without what I love most, nothing is the same.

Without what I want most, what else does it give me,
blanket and hat will be my home.
Therefore, my godson, return in peace,
No one * tells him that I'm here.

We agreed... I left him taking...
I lit a memory... and I smoked it...

I thought I saw him on his green mountain,
smiling at the wind and the horizon,
making a face to see pass
the patch of herons heading to the palm grove.

Hyacinth Cenobio, Hyacinth Adam,
If in your paradise there was only peace,
I don't know what guilt you want to pay****
here in the hell of the city.

Hyacinth Cenobio!...


* Alfredo Zitarrosa says "nobody."
** Alfredo Zitarrosa says "if in the end I no longer want to go back there, / if I no longer have or can't get there."
*** Alfredo Zitarrosa says "His godmother, Trinidad, died."
**** Alfredo Zitarrosa says "you want to pay."

Jacal: Poor housing, hut.
Mecapal: Wide belt used to carry something on the back (passing the mecapal over the forehead).

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