Presencia

Recited.
No matter how much you love me, don't cry when I die,
Don't cry for the one who leaves and returns in the evening,
Nor for the hidden seed that will sprout tomorrow,
Nor for the caterpillar that dies to give life to its wings.

Sung.
Even in the murky puddle of my retinas,
Never look at yourself again in life.
Even in the silent and frozen garden of my mouth,
No more kisses will bloom for your red lips.
Even if salty veils hang from your eyelashes
And a necklace of sobs tightens in your throat.
Even if the insatiable hunger of absence gnaws at you
And the lead of emptiness condenses in your veins.
No matter how much you lack, no matter how you feel me,
No matter how much you love me..., don't cry when I die.

Recited.
It's difficult... I understand..., but... listen to a secret:
Birth and death are just the extremes of an eternal chain,
Multiform and strange, where oceans of life renew and change.
Nothing truly dies and even if your eyes saw my flesh disintegrate
Like grains of sand and scatter in the fury of the wind,
It will only be a vain appearance that I have died.
No, I will not be dead. It's not possible for me to die,
I am as indestructible as spring.
I may take on strange appearances like her,
But just like her, you will feel my presence:
In the earth, in the water, in the air, in the fire,
In the flower, in the thorn, in the cloud, in the thunder.

Sung.
The earth of my bones will return to the earth,
The water of my body will return to the eternal water,
The heat of my veins will burn in new fires
And the air of my chest will travel with the wind.

Recited.
Returned to the same time..., to nothing and everything,
I will arise in a thousand ways from my lifeless remains,
Always alive and changing..., indestructible, eternal,
Spinning through the centuries in an endless sky.
And in one form or another, I will be in your life,
In the water you drink, in the silk you wear,
In the flower that perfumes you, in the air you breathe
And maybe even the gentle breeze that caresses your cheeks as it passes by,
Perhaps it will bring you the intangible echo of a kiss I gave you in another time.

Sung.
Even if you don't believe it... even if you don't suspect it,
I will always be with you as long as you remember me.

Recited.
I will always be with you as long as you remember me.