Noches de luna

Era un barrio, que quizá ni lo recuerdes
Con casitas estilo patriarcal,
Donde iban a juntarse las estrellas
Y la luna, se extasiaba en contemplar.
Cuantas noches, apoyado en tu ventana
Yo te hablaba de los versos de Rubén,
Y tus manos, en el piano, acariciaban
Los Nocturnos y los Valses de Chopin.
 
Pasaron muchos años
Y tan sólo es un recuerdo,
Todas las locuras
Que soñábamos los dos.
A mí me parecía poco el Universo
Para conquistarlo por tu amor.
Aquel tierno romance
De ilusiones juveniles,
Fue un suspiro vano
Sin llegar a florecer.
Lejos te llevaron
A olvidar un corazón ,
Que te perdona
Y te adora como ayer.
 
Esta noche, los recuerdos me llevaron
Hasta el barrio feliz, de tu niñez,
De la casa, todo en ruinas sólo queda
La ventana donde tanto te adoré.
Me apoyé, cerré los ojos como entonces
Murmurando aquellos versos de Rubén,
Y escuché como si adentro alguien tocara
Tus Nocturnos y tus Valses de Chopin.

English translation

It was a neighborhood, you may not even remember it
With patriarchal style houses,
Where the stars would gather
And the moon, was ecstatic to contemplate.
How many nights, leaning on your window
I would talk to you about Ruben's verses,
And your hands, on the piano, would caress
Chopin's Nocturnes and Waltzes.
 
Many years went by
And it is only a memory,
All the crazy things
That we both dreamed of.
To me it seemed little the Universe
To conquer it for your love.
That tender romance
Of youthful illusions,
Was a vain sigh
Never to blossom.
Far away they took you
To forget a heart,
That forgives you
And adores you like yesterday.
 
Tonight, memories took me
To the happy neighborhood of your childhood,
From the house, all in ruins only remains
The window where I adored you so much.
I leaned, I closed my eyes as I did then
Murmuring those verses of Rubén,
And I listened as if inside someone was playing
Your Nocturnes and your Chopin Waltzes.