Masa
Pablo Milanés
Mass
At the end of the battle
and the fighter dead
a man came to him and said:
- Don't die, I love you so much!
But the corpse
oh, kept on dying.
Two approached him
and repeated:
- Don't leave us, courage,
come back to life!
But the corpse
oh, kept on dying.
Twenty, a hundred, a thousand
five hundred thousand came to him crying out:
- So much love, and unable to do anything
against death!
But the corpse
oh, kept on dying.
Millions surrounded him
with a common plea:
Stay, brother!
But the corpse
oh, kept on dying.
Then all the men
on earth, surrounded him.
The corpse saw them, sad, moved
slowly sat up,
hugged the first man
and started walking.