La Manuelita

Walking around
I was walking
into a store
to buy
I met
Manuelita
and I started
falling in love with her

I asked
Manuelita
how old are you
I will turn
fifteen years old
on the sixteenth
of September

the deadline
she gave me
to be able
to marry
was to count
the stars
and brick up
the sea

(look at that, what a beauty)

your eyes
are the stars
your body
will be the sea
your brothers
are bricks
I already bricked up
the sea

what would
Manuelita think
that I would have
to beg her
after all I am
a single man
and love
will abound for me