Silvio Rodriguez
Miscellaneous
Butterflies
Today is like the fourth time I've waited
since I know you'll never come again.
I'm back to be that song of the downpour
that made his hug on your waist almost legal.
And you appear in my window,
soft and small, with white wings.
I I don't even breathe so that you can sleep
and not leave.
What curious ways
one has to remember,
what curious ways:
today I remember butterflies
that yesterday were only smoke,
butterflies, butterflies
that emerged from the dark
dancers, silent.
Your time is now a butterfly,
little white ship, thin, nervous.
Centuries ago they flooded a second
underneath the sky, above the world
Your time is now a butterfly,
little white ship, thin, nervous .
Centuries ago they flooded a second
under the sky, above the world
That's how you were on those fun afternoons,
that's how you were as a furious companion.
/>You were like those days when you are life
and everything you touch becomes spring.
Oh, butterfly, you are the soul
of the warriors who love and sing,
and you are the new being that appears in my throat
What curious ways
of remembering one has,
what curious ways:
today I remember butterflies
that yesterday were only smoke,
butterflies, butterflies
that emerged from the dark
dancers, silent,
Your time is now a butterfly,
little ship white, thin, nervous,
Centuries ago they flooded a second
underneath the sky, above the world.
Your time is now a butterfly,
little white ship, thin, nervous ,
Centuries ago they flooded a second
under the sky, above the world.
Your time is now a butterfly,
little white ship, thin, nervous,
Centuries ago they flooded a second
under the sky, above the world.