Penas y Alegrias Del Amor

Look how my skin reacts when I remember you,
through my throat rises a river of fresh blood,
from the wound that pierces my body through and through,
I have nails in my hands, and knives in my fingers,
and on my temple a crown made of black pins.

Look how my skin reacts every time I remember,
that I am a married man and yet I love you.

Between your house and my house there is a wall of silence,
of nettles and prickly pears, of cane, sand, and wind,
of dark jungles and lurking lilies.

And a wall so that the town can never jump over it,
that is hovering around the key that guards our secret,
and I know well that you love me, and you know that I love you,
and we both know it and no one else can know.

I leave my house for the countryside only with your thought,
to caress alone the fabric of that handkerchief,
that you dropped one Sunday when you were coming from the village,
and that I have never told you, my love, that I have it,
and I squeeze it in my hands, like a new lemon,
and I look at your initials and repeat them in silence,
so that not even the countryside knows how much I love you.

Yesterday in the new square, my love, don't do it again,
I saw you kiss my child, my youngest child,
how you would kiss him, oh Virgin of Remedies,
if it was the first time you gave me a kiss,
I ran to my house, running, and lifted my child from the ground,
and without anyone seeing me, like a thief in ambush,
in his face of poppies, your kiss bit my mouth.

What joy to love you as I do,
oh life, if I don't have you, I repeat your name in silence,
what joy to love you as I do,
what joy and what sorrow to love you as I do.

What joy and what sorrow to love you as I do,
life, whatever happens, and even if the sky collapses,
even if your name and mine are trampled on the ground,
even if the earth opens up, and even if the town knows,
let our flags of love fly to the four winds,
keep loving me like this, torment of my torments,
what joy and what sorrow to love you as I do.

What joy to love you as I do,
I love you more than my life, more than my life because I love you,
what joy to love you as I do,
what joy and what sorrow to love you as I do.