Canción Para Acordarme

I tied memories
To the tree of the night
And went in search of the sun
And I still remember
The first time I made love
I remember my people
Spending early mornings
For a can of water,
I remember the first time I saw Fidel
In the Sierra Maestra
In a movie brought by a Frenchman
And projected on the wall
Of a church
It was the whitest
And biggest house in town
And on its walls I saw Fidel
In the Sierra Maestra.

I remember Salvador, the bricklayer
Reading me pieces of the capital,
And when my mother found out
That I was a communist
She said: God bless you!
Because blessings must serve
For something
In this life
And I happily went on the road
Full of joy
And I learned to shit on the freedom
That Superman defends
Because shit must serve
For something
In this life.

And I filled my rifle with flowers
Of poems
And I sharpened the aim
Of the song against the beasts
I added hearts
To defeat burrows
By filling myself with rumors
Of the kite when it returns

I tied memories
To the tree of the night
And went in search of the sun
I remember when I came in third
In a bicycle race
And they left me out
Of the prize list
Because of a little rooster
Painted on my shirt
I remember my first
Pair of shoes
Won in a poetry contest,
I remember my shoe shine box