Cenizas

I saw you arrive pale and gray, sentimental
And in your profile, loneliness
You came from a love, fleeing from a pain
You brought the wounded illusion
I opened wide my life

Until one day you dared to enter
I heard you say that loving is something like
Playing, like choosing
You brought your desire to believe
Love hurt beneath your skin

The magic of feeling alive held onto my life
Like to your other skin
And then I loved you
I gave you my love, my tears, my faith
You brought ashes of a love
I closed your wounds, healed your pain

Ashes of a love, ashes
That burn in my life, far from your skin
You grew in my delicate and subtle, spring-like
In the glow of an ideal
You had a need to give

I opened my life to you, I proposed to be
You dreamed of a new day
And your pupils were the dawn
I saw you dream, I heard you laugh, I saw you cry
And I shared your intimacy

Your fragile nakedness tasted
Like forbidden fruit, like the first time
Your tears in raw flesh
Of love fell, moving me
And then I loved you
I gave you my love, my tears, my faith

You brought ashes of a love
I closed your wounds, healed your pain
Ashes of a love, ashes
That burn in my life, far from your skin