Amigo

Reach me the cup of your sorrow,
I want to look at its dark bottom.
Don't drink it all at once, I ask you,
Savor it slowly, without hurry.

If you get drunk on anger or bitterness,
and your eyelids are heavy with doubts,
right there, at the bottom of your sorrow,
you will find my naked understanding,
and in the warm hand that I offer you,
there won't be reciprocity waiting,
but my open heart,
beating eagerly next to yours.

Don't falter, and reach me your cup,
that sorrow lacks many things:
the mature response that time gives
and the strength of kind struggle.

With a little love, you will be very strong,
and if that love replaces the impossible,
you will overcome all kinds with time
and you will be in the fight the invincible.

Never beg for warmth and shelter,
let pity not reach your door,
the borrowed affection is the punishment
that life always offers for being easy.

That's how it has been since the world began,
since God gave you existence,
don't use it to drown in it
or squander it seeking experience.

And remember that with a little love you will be very strong,
and if that love replaces the impossible,
you will overcome all kinds with time
and you will be in the fight... the invincible.