Todo corazón

Why do you betray the affection
that your burning lip swore to me!
Why do you forget the embrace
I gave you, captive of your love!
Why do you leave me sad and alone
while the hours mock my affliction?
Don't you see that I die with your absence
because I am all heart?

But go on in your mad illusions
That, very soon, surrendered to disillusionment
you will return, like the bird returns to the nest,
you will return to the love you have profaned.
I await you without hatred or rancor,
with the frank smile of my lips,
because your life is my adoration,
because I am all heart.

This is the hymn of tenderness
that we shall sing together to love:
triumphant I with my sleeplessness,
thirsty you with longing and bitterness.
And then I want you to tell me,
remembering the life that died,
why, after long absence,
you seek shelter in my heart.