ALGARROBO

(Song)

A light of hope
and a shadow of sorrow
I am a tree that reaches
greenery in the sand.

I am a tree, without irrigation
alone and far from the fields;
I am faith, I am the plea
and also the miracle.

On the outside, I am dead wood,
death from the harshness of time,
but hidden inside I keep
the sap that becomes life
with the bird and the flower.

I am the light of bonfires
in the lost night
while songs of absence
and forgetfulness are heard.

I am the cross that loves the most,
already arrived at the destination,
the muleteer who dies
after weariness and road.

On the outside, I am dead wood...