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Remembranza     Remembrance
 
Music: Mario Melfi
Lyrics: Mario Battistella
Rec. by Ricardo Malerba
with Orlando Medina
  Tr. Jake Spatz
Recited 16 August 2006, Divino Lounge
 
Cómo son largas las semanas
cuando no estás cerca de mí.
No sé qué fuerza sobrehumana
me da valor lejos de ti.
Muerta la luz de mi esperanza
soy como un náufrago en el mar,
sé que me pierdo en lontananza
ma no me puedo resignar.

How unending are the weeks
without you anywhere close to me.
I don't know what superhuman power
is giving me courage away from you.
The light of my hopes gone out,
I am as one who's shipwrecked on the sea,
knowing me lost amid the horizon,
and yet I cannot surrender.

Ay!... qué triste es recordar,
después de tanto amar,
esa dicha que pasó,
flor de una ilusión,
nuestra pasión
se marchitó...
Ay!... olvida mi desdén,
retorna, dulce bien,
a nuestro amor,
y volverá a florecer
nuestro querer
como aquella flor.

O alas... how sad to remember,
on the far side of being in love,
the happiness gone by—
that flower of an illusion,
the passion between us
that withered away...
Alas... put my scorn out of mind,
and come, my sweetness,
back to our love,
and the fondness between us
shall flourish again
like that flower of before.

En nuestro cuarto tibio y rosa
todo está igual, como otra vez
en cada adorno, en cada cosa
te sigo viendo como ayer.
Tu foto sobre la mesita
es credencial de nuestro amor,
y aquella hortensia, ya marchita,
que fue el canto de mi dolor.

In the warmth of our rose-lit room
everything still belongs to another time...
in every decoration, in each detail,
I still see you with yesterday's eyes.
Your photo above the nightstand
testifies here to our love,
as this hydrangea, withered now for weeks,
bore witness to the song of my sorrow.



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