Prohibido Prohibir

You can't forbid
The choice to think
Nor can you prevent
The storm at sea

You can't forbid
That in an inner flight
A sparrow, when leaving
Seeks a better sky
You can't forbid
The vital impulse
Nor the drop of honey
Nor the grain of salt
Nor the unmatched desire
Nor the endless wish
To laugh, to cry
You can't forbid

You can't forbid
The iridescent color
Of the evening dying
In the sunset

You can't forbid
Nor can you deny
The right to live
The reason to dream

You can't forbid
Nor believing nor creating
Nor excluding the earth
Nor hiding the moon

You can't forbid
Not even a bit of love
Nor can you avoid
The sprouting of the flower

Not the soul's vibration
Nor the pulse's beat
Nor life in its walk
You can't forbid

You can't forbid
The eagerness to sing
Nor the duty to say
What shouldn't be silenced

Only the man incapable
Of understanding, of feeling
Has managed in the end
To forbid his greatness

And denies the taste
And the simple truth
Of living love
And in total freedom

If I had the power
To decide
I would dictate a law
It's forbidden to forbid