Zamba para Javier

I want to have a child
who looks like you,
with sad and distant eyes
and music in the heart.

I want our child
to dream like both of us;
and as the night gets wet by the river
fall asleep with this song.

Our child, another light has risen in your sky,
that is coming to invite you for a walk
on his donkey, the little Jesus.

I want to pour all our love
into the child;
and for him to find in the zamba
his name when Javier arrives from heaven.

I want to rush time
so it can be;
and as his day rains with lights
may this verse come true for him.