Los Que Se Aman

When you fall in love
you cover yourself in glory with borrowed clothes,
steal poems saying they're yours
and keep love letters in boxes.

When you fall in love
you want a honeymoon every minute
and the distractions that are also yours
and wrap jealousy in cellophane.

Those who love each other give kisses
one by one, if there are spies
by the hundreds if they don't look
beyond the sky.
Those who love each other send messages
on radio programs
or on the bark of a tree
in their street.
Those who love each other, those who love each other, those who love each other...

When you fall in love
it's not enough to just hold hands,
and hands are not enough for hugs,
and even love slips away over the phone.
Those who love each other give kisses
one by one, if there are spies
by the hundreds if they don't look
beyond the sky.

Those who love each other send messages
on radio programs
or on the bark of a tree
in their street.
They even eat love,
with lip paint,
or on a lonely bench,
in a life square.
Those who love each other give kisses...