Proverbios y Cantares
Paco Ibañez
Proverbs and Songs
Our hours are minutes
when we wait to know,
and centuries when we know
what can be learned.
The envy of virtue
made Cain a criminal.
Glory to Cain! Today vice
is what is most envied
Do not be surprised, dear friends,
that my forehead is wrinkled:
I live in peace with men
and at war with my bowels.
Yesterday I dreamed I saw
God and spoke to God;
and I dreamed that God heard me...
Then I dreamed I was dreaming.
It's good to know that glasses
serve us to drink;
the bad thing is that we don't know
what thirst is for.
Everything passes and everything remains,
but ours is to pass,
passing by making paths,
paths over the sea.
There is already a Spaniard who wants
to live and begins to live,
between a Spain that is dying
and another Spain that yawns.
Little Spaniard who comes
to the world, may God keep you.
One of the two Spains
will freeze your heart.
