Sencilla Alegría

Simple joy, when I look around
and things are still where I left them yesterday
In the market, a gray man gets angry
a girl next to him falls off her skateboard
The old lady buys a cat
with one gray and blue eye
A car passes by with a couple
with a thousand tulle ribbons
A machine lifts
a pile of cobblestones
Two guards arrive and look
as if blaming me
Simple joy
when I look around
and things are still where I left them yesterday
It's the city that moves
in its cloud of smoke and tar
city that breathes and watches
when I look around
The old lady buys a cat
with one gray and blue eye
A car passes by with a couple
with a thousand tulle ribbons
Some young people kiss
as if it were an end
On TV plays and plays
a banal music
They are the simple things of life
it's the lively beat of my big city
They are the little things that life gives us
it's the lively beat that envelops the city
Simple joy, when I look around
and things are still where I left them yesterday.