Lejos de Ayer
Gastón Ávalos
Far from Yesterday
Far from yesterday and in the distance
I met you in the memory
Your mouth named me like that day
When saying my name in an 'I love you'
I couldn't have your perfume
Nor the chestnut waves of your hair
Nor could I keep inside you
All the seagulls of my body
A wind between us brought silence
And I let myself be carried away by that gale
Towards another sky
I thought I wouldn't see you again and today I find you in the memory
The pale moon witnessed
The blue crime of loving each other
It was like a red brushstroke
On the white canvas of silence
I invented a forgetfulness to memory
I swore to God I would do it
I said your name wrongly because it was forbidden
I forbade myself from naming you even in my dreams
A wind between us put...