I
want you to know one thing
You know how this is
If
I look at the crystal moon
At the red branch of the slow autumn
at my window
If I touch near the fire the impalpable
ash Or the wrinkled body of the
log
Everything carries me to you
As if everything that exists - aromas,
light, metals
Were little boats that sail toward
those isles of yours that wait for
me
Well,
now
If little by little you stop loving
me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten
you
If
you think it long and mad the wind
of banners that passes through my
life
And you decide to leave me at the
shore of the heart where I have
roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek
another land
But,
if each day, each hour, you feel
that you
are
destined for me
With implacable sweetness
If each day a flower climbs up to
your lips to seek me
Ahh my love, ahh my own, in me all
that fire is repeated
In me nothing is extinguished or
forgotten
My love feeds on your love, beloved
And as long as you live, it will
be in your arms without leaving
mine