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I can guess the flicker
Of the lights in the distance
Marking my return

They are the same that illuminated
With their pale reflections
Deep hours of pain

And although I didn't want the return
You always return
to the first love

The old street
Where I take shelter
Its life is yours
Its desire is yours

Under the mocking
Gaze of the stars
Who with indifference
Today see me return

To return
With a wrinkled forehead
The snows of time
Have silvered my temples

To feel
That life is a breath
That twenty years is nothing
That the feverish gaze
Wandering in the shadows
Seeks you and names you

To live
With the soul clinging
To a sweet memory
That I cry once again

I am afraid of the encounter
With the past that returns
To confront my life

I am afraid of the nights
That, filled with memories
Shackle my dreaming

But the traveler who flees
Sooner or later
Halts his journey

And although forgetfulness
That destroys everything
Has killed my old illusion

I keep hidden
A humble hope
That is all the fortune
Of my heart

To return
With a wrinkled forehead
The snows of time
Have silvered my temples

To feel
That life is a breath
That twenty years is nothing
That the feverish gaze
Wandering in the shadows
Seeks you and names you

To live
With the soul clinging
To a sweet memory
That I cry once again