Si Volvieran Los Dragones

If anguish didn't last so many months,
if I could escape from this city,
if the miracle of loaves and fishes
could manage to feed us.
If the highways had a heart,
if someone waited for me at the station,
if artists came down from the moon,
if this song ended well.
If we learned to love like animals,
if there was still time to waste,
if generals danced rock and roll,
if the red rooster sang at dawn.
And the senses forgot about reason.
And the swallows
knew how to return
to build their nest every autumn in the clock
of the offices,
if the hurricane of the future
tore down the borders,
tore apart the flags out of passion,
if in the year two thousand
imagination reigned.
If silence was worth more than gold,
if I could find a hotel in Shangri-La,
if death crashed a party at the forum,
if I could love you until the end
and shipwreck
on the treasure island,
if the mercenaries of loneliness
set fire with a blues
to the entire southern cone.
If in the rubble of the revolution
the green tree of pleasure grew,
and the cathedrals got tired of being
ruins of God's failure.
If dragons returned to populate the avenues
of a planet committing suicide.
If dragons returned...
If dragons returned...

If dragons returned,
Robin Hood, the Amazons,
Marco Polo, Nosferatu, Garcilazo,
Casanova, Buster Keaton, Mandahari, Don Quixote,
Macedonio, Moby Dick, The Buccaneers,
Nostradamus, Celedonio, Sargent Pepper,
Goyeneche, Sitting Bull, The Violet Seller,
Janis Joplin, Doctor Jekyll, D'Artagnan,
spring, the Song of Songs, Greta Garbo,
El Tempranillo, Babylon, Jules Verne, Camarón,
the tenements, Gulliver, Sierra Maestra, Bonnie and Clyde,
Mary Magdalene, Camelot, the alchemists,
Atahualpa, Bonavena, Fellini's busty woman, Bakunin,
illusions, Spartacus, Messalina, the stork,
the jesters,
If dragons returned.