La Filosófica

My warning does not intend
For you to be as I want
Nor to get you into trouble
Of showing you my experience
You have been raised with the essence
Water is your drinker

Life is a doctrine
The whole world its temple
You will find in time
Your knowledge well matured
It will be when you have pronounced
The right example phrase

Leaving a trace in life
Are pretensions of man
If he has not achieved
That his name remains engraved in time
It is because he has only built
A hut of straw and adobe

Of course straw and adobe
At a special moment
Constitute a foundation
Within the construction
Do not build a big house
Without checking the foundations

You have to do neat embroidery
On the tablecloth of life
But not for display
And then keep it stored
A starched tablecloth
I prefer the one with food

Life is the great school
And in the classroom of knowledge
Do not be surprised
That from a well-born tree
Twisted branches come out
As they have bent while growing

Ostentation is not worth
Excessive arrogance
The well-understood reason
Of the best-thinking man
Is after he has gone inside
To then seek the way out

Having peace is relative
And despite other criteria
Do not look for the remedy
Because that evil is terrible
You will not find total peace
Not even in the peace of the cemetery