Regalo para un primer cumpleaños

You will believe that time passes quickly,
that good memories can hurt,
but you have come to remind us
that growing up isn't so bad.

You will see that there are days with thorns
and that living can hurt,
but remember that each day
the world awakens in you.

The future will come to see you any of these days.
And you will have in your hands what we never had:
the hope of a world with blue seas,
without fierce hurricanes or overflowing rivers.

There will be no men dying without bread or miracles.
And on the opposite wall you will read that someone has written
a greeting of peace, a good morning, a bird
with its wings open to fly aimlessly.

When the shadows lengthen
and touch you with their hands
remember that there is always someone,
someone who is looking for you
to paint the future,
you see, someone like you
with whom to share the flight
and get drunk on light.

The present will come to see you with a hunger for the future,
that uncertain tomorrow that we sense someday
that you will make close, more human and open,
more real, more equal, fairer and cleaner.

It will be mandatory to write poetry
and the word love, as if it were wine,
we will have to drink it compulsorily
every time a piece of bread is broken and shared.

I wanted to write you a song
to teach you how to live,
you are a newcomer
and I am already your apprentice.