Canção de Madrugar

I dressed you in linen
I adorned you with nard
Love I never saw
But I know

I know of your eyes lit up in the night
Signs of a good awakening
I know of your arms open to all
Who slowly die

I know my invented love that one day
Your body may ignite
A bonfire of Sun and fury
That will see us born

I will drink from you
The wine I trod
The gall of what I suffered

And I gave of my body a whip of strength
I washed my eyes with water
I gave of my blood a sword of anger
And a lance of sorrow

I gave of my dream a rope of sleeplessness
I pierced my arms with arrows
I discovered roses, expanded cities

And built poets
And never found you
On the road of what I did
Love I did not achieve

But I wanted
I know my invented love that one day
Your body may ignite
A bonfire of Sun and fury
That will see us born

Then
Neither tears, nor fears, nor howls, nor screams
Nor stones, nor knives, nor hungers, nor droughts
Nor farces, nor gallows, nor barbs, nor beasts
Nor irons, nor thistles, nor darts, nor darkness
Nor screams, nor stones, nor knives, nor hungers
Nor droughts, nor farces, nor gallows, nor barbs
Nor beasts, nor irons, nor thistles, nor darts, nor darkness