Our love was bornoutside the walls,in the wind,in the night,in the earth,and that's why the clay and the flower,the mud and the rootsknow your name.

Y por que el sol es tan mal amigodel caminante en el desierto?Y por que el sol es tan simpaticoen el jardin del hospital?And why is the sun such a bad companionto the traveler in the desert?And why is the sun so congenial in the hospital garden?

Of all the stars I admired, drenchedin various rivers and mists,I chose only the one I love,Since then I sleep with the night.Of all the waves, one wave and another wave,green sea, green chill, branchings of green,I chose only the one wave,The indivisible wave of your bodyAll the waterdrops, all the rootsall the threads of light gathered to me here;they came to me sooner or laterI wanted your hair all for myselfFrom all the gaces of my homeland offeredI chose only your savage heart.

You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky,

With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?

Come see the cherry trees of a water constellationand the round key of the rapid universe,come touch the fire of instantaneous blue,come before its petals are consumed.

I move in the university of the waves.

Hay una estrella mas abiertaque la palabra 'amapola'?Is there a star more wide openthan the word 'poppy"?

Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,you have vines and stars in your hair,