Naila

And I took her to the river
thinking she was a maiden
but she had a husband
it was a night of Santiago
and almost out of obligation
the streetlights turned on
and the crickets went silent
the light of understanding
makes me more restrained
and I don't want to, as a man,
say the things she told me
because having a husband
she told me she was a maiden
when I took her to the river

It was a moonlit night, Naila cried before me
she told me tenderly that she loved me madly
I asked her why she was crying
and she answered me like this

My caresses are no longer good
I am no longer Naila for you
I gave myself to another man
I am no longer Naila for you

Naila, why do you abandon me?
silly, you know well that I love you
come back to me, do not seek other paths
I forgive you because without your love
my heart breaks

'They told me yesterday, the double-edged tongues,
that you got married a month ago
and I remained so calm.
Any other in my place would have started crying,
I, crossing my arms, said, said I didn't care
no shooting myself, nor cursing you,
nor stoning with my sighs
the bars of your balconies,
that you got married, good luck
live a hundred years content,
and may God not hold it against you at the time of your death,
if at the foot of the altars, you forgot my name
by my mother's glory, I hold no grudge against you.
But since your boyfriend is rich, I give you this prophecy,
there in the early morning you will dream that you were mine
and you will remember the afternoon my mouth kissed you,
and you will wake up crying and call yourself a coward,
a coward as I tell you, because that one,
that one who was neither your boyfriend, nor your husband, nor your lover
has been the one who loved you the most and with that,
with that I am content,
and I don't ask heaven to send you more punishment,
that you are sleeping with another and dreaming of me.'

Naila, why do you abandon me?
silly, you know well that I love you
come back to me, do not seek other paths
I forgive you because without your love
my heart breaks.