Para Vivir

Many times I told you
that before doing it
we had to think it
through well,
that this bond between us
needed some flesh
and desire too,
that it wasn't enough
for you to understand me
and to be dying for me,
that it wasn't enough
for me to take refuge
in you during my failures.
And now you see what happened,
at last it was born
after all these years
the tremendous exhaustion
that it caused in you.
And even though it's painful
you have to say it.
For my part, I hoped
that one day time
would take care of the end.
If it hadn't been that way
I would have kept
playing at making you happy.
And even though the crying is bitter
think of the years
you have left to live,
that my pain
is no less and the worst
is that I can no longer feel.
And now try to conquer
with vain effort
this lost time
that leaves us defeated
without being able to know
that thing they call love
to live.