I Hear Your Voice - Francisco García Jiménez

Afraid of dying,

longing to be alive—

dreams or reality?

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.

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Francisco García Jiménez (1899 - 1983) Argentina

Translated by Derrick Del Pilar

Source: The Poetry of the Tango