Monólogo de Orfeu

Most beloved woman!
Now that you're not here
Let my heart break into sobs
You've embedded yourself in my life
And every passing hour
Is more reason to love you
The hour pours its oil of love on me, beloved

And you know what?
Every time suffering comes
This longing to be close, when far
Or to be closer, when near
What do I know?
This feeling of weakness
The overflowing chest
The honey flowing
This inability to feel more like myself, Orpheus
All this is quite capable
Of confusing a man's spirit

None of this matters
When you arrive with that old chatter
That contentment, that harmony, that body
And you tell me those things
That give me that strength, that king's pride

Ah, my Eurydice
My verse, my silence, my music
Never run away from me
Without you, I am nothing
I am a thing without reason, discarded, a rolling stone
Orpheus without Eurydice: Incomprehensible thing!
Existence without you is like looking at a clock
With only the minute hand
You are the hour, you give meaning
And direction to time
My dearest friend!

What mother, what father, what nothing!
Life's beauty is you, beloved
Beloved by millions! Ah! Creature!
Who would have thought that Orpheus
Orpheus whose guitar is the life of the city
And whose speech, like the wind on the flower
Unfolds the women -
That he, Orpheus
Would be so captivated by your charms?

Mulatto, dark skin, white teeth
Go your way
I'll follow you in thought
And here I'll stay close when you return
By the full moon
To the endless arms of your friend

Go on with your life, happy bird
Go on with your life, for I'll be with you