Cenizas

I saw you arrive, absent and gray, sentimental
And in your profile, loneliness
You were coming from a love, running from a mistake
You carried the wounded hope

I opened my life wide
Until one fine day you decided to step in
I heard you say that loving is something like
Playing a game, making a choice

You brought your desire to believe
Love hurt, beneath your skin
The magic of feeling alive
I cling to your life, I felt like a woman

And then I loved you
I gave you my love, my tears, my faith
You brought ashes of a love
I closed your wounds, I healed your pain
Ashes of a love, ashes
That burn in my life, far from your skin

You grew in me like a spring light
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 saw you laugh, I saw you cry
And share your intimacy
Your fragile nakedness knew
Like forbidden fruit, like the first time
Your tears in raw flesh
Fell from love, 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, I learned to love you
Ashes of a love, ashes
That burn in my life, far from your skin