Elegida Para Ti Y Para Mi

I will keep dreaming as life goes by
And you will slowly fade away in my dreams
One year and another year will fall like dry leaves
From the branches of the ancient tree of time
And your smile full of clarity and dawn
Will drift away in the growing shadow of memory
I will keep dreaming as life goes by
And perhaps little by little I will stop making verses
Under the overwhelming burden of daily routine
Of disappointments and boredom
You who never dreamed of more than possible things
Will gradually stop looking at yourself in the mirror
Maybe we will see each other, casually one day
Crossing a street and we will greet each other
I might think how beautiful you still are
You might think he's getting old
You will go alone or with someone else, I will go alone or with someone else
And you will go with a child who should have been ours
And life will continue to die year after year
Just like a dark river flowing towards silence
A friend will one day tell me they saw you
Or a song from back then will bring back your memory
And in those sad nights of stillness and stars
I will think of you for a moment but each time less
And life will go on, I will keep dreaming
But there will no longer be a woman's name in my dreams
I will have definitively forgotten you
And on my knees my grandchildren will play
And perhaps by then, crossing a street
We will face each other without recognizing each other
And one sunny afternoon I will be covered with earth
Hands forever crossed over my chest
You with sad eyes and white hair
You will spend hours yawning and knitting
And every spring the roses will bloom again
Even though you are old
And even though I have died...