El tren blindado
Silvio Rodriguez
The Armored Train
In the city that holds
the island in the center
there's a derailed train
National Museum
that lovers fertilize
with the sap of their bodies
long live that defeated iron
by the clarity
long live that bed of love.
Folks who deserve love
will pay, will pay for everything
because the one who deserves is usually
the one who usually has duty.
Blessed must be
the one who sows for others
the one who in the seed will leave
a shred of their own being.
The armored train
blooms its iron figure
since that guerrilla
crushed its temple
derailed by a slap from the people
to let a man see himself
with a woman.
Long live that bed of love.
