Cenizas

I saw you arrive absent and gray sentimental
And in your profile, loneliness
You came from a love, you ran from a mistake
You brought the wounded illusion
I opened wide my life
Until one day you dared to enter

I heard you say that loving is something like
Playing... Like choosing
You brought your desire to believe
Love hurt beneath your skin
The magic of feeling alive
Held me to your life, I felt like a woman
And then I loved you
I gave you my love, my tears, my faith
You brought ashes of a love
I closed your wounds, I healed your pain
Ashes of a love, ashes

That burn in my life far from your skin

You grew in me like a springtime light
In the glow of an ideal
You had a need to give
I opened my life to you, I proposed to be
You dreamed of a new day
And your pupils were the dawn

I saw you dream, I saw you laugh, I saw you cry
And share your intimacy
Your fragile nakedness tasted
Like forbidden fruit, like the first time
Your tears in raw flesh
Of love fell, moving me

And then I loved you
I gave you my love, my tears, my faith
You brought ashes of a love
I closed your wounds, I learned to love you
Ashes of a love, ashes
That burn in my life far from your skin