If I could take you to hide where I'm going
and give you all the rain of a gray day,
fall in love with a low voice
when even the wind can not hear me,
if I could from where I am ...
make you come.
If I could find a place and love you here?
undressing the many hours of stillness,
save the immense of that smell
at the end of January and for living,
if I could from where I am ...
make you come.
If I could win the hurry and see the sea,
delineating the unreality of your existence,
join sigh and loneliness
when oblivion must leave.
If I could from where I am,
Oh love, make you come
to light the city and the sun
with storm gestures,
if I could where I'm from
win the hurry and return to the sea.
If I could drown the breeze, the humidity,
and propose to save the kiss I choose?
nourish the clarity of a hope,
even for tea, if I could from where I am ... make you come.
If I could quench thirst, age,
the voice, reconquer you
with what remains to be said,
join my anxiety in one fell swoop
and the smooth curve of your feeling.
If I could from where I am,
Oh love, make you come
there would be no ardor to be violent,
no bandoliers to consent;
if I could from where I am,
Oh love, make you come,
arm with fire the dignity,
lose the site to pretend
If I could from where I am,
Oh love, make you come,
have your mouth and your heart
when the desire wants to boil me;
if I could from where I am,
Oh love, make you come
if I could from where I am,
Oh love ... make you come!
Havana (1979)
Only among all we can make this a better place :)