Afraid of dying,
longing to be alive—
Something wants to become
a sunrise
in my solitude…
songs I have forgotten,
places I have left,
joys I have lost,
today with the emotions
inside my heart
everything returns to me!
I hear your voice,
and my ears can’t forget it.
Your voice brings
even to my hidden pains
the light and the life
of a ray of sunshine.
I listen again
to my name on your lips,
and I cannot tell
if the word I feel
is the wind’s deception,
only a hallucination.
Francisco García Jiménez (1899 - 1983) Argentina
Translated by Derrick Del Pilar
Source: The Poetry of the Tango
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