Clarita

Tied to the weight of my fate,
rough, so rough...
I walked through bitter nights on a dark path,
long, so long.
But your love, shining bright,
like a new sun lit up my way,
and pointed out my destiny
and healed my pain...

Because you are, Clara, the clarity
radiant with goodness,
a glow of moonlight, silver, a spark
that neither burns nor kills, a brightness
like the moon in the homes, a hue,
like the moon on the seas, a glow,
you've bathed my life, dear Clara,
in the light of your love...

A wandering outcast on the endless plain,
a sailor lost at sea,
in the aimless drift of my existence
you were, Clara, like a great light...

Moonlight in a sky without sunset,
starshine in the pure blue of the horizon,
may God grant my night never ends,
because you are my sun...