La Vieja de la Plaza - Alberto Cortez

Quiso tener un hijo

para llamarlo Luna

y por querer, lo quiso

más que ninguna.

Que todas las estrellas

de las alturas,

fueran madre con ella,

una por una.

Quiso tener un hijo

para estrenarlo a tiempo,

antes de que la vida

le ponga precio.

Le amarre la fortuna

entre los dedos

o acaso la locura,

la luz o el miedo.

Quiso tener un hijo

y se marchó a buscarlo.

Revisó las galaxias,

astro por astro.

Se llenaron de niebla

sus ojos claros,

en las muchas tinieblas

del desengaño.

Quiso tener un hijo,

pero no tiene nada

más que un paisaje triste

en la mirada

y un mundo de muñecos

sobre la cama

y el alma, como el cuarto,

desordenada.

Es esa pobre vieja

que sentada en la plaza,

ve jugar a los niños

alucinada.

Ella hubiera querido

llamarlo Luna…

y por querer, lo quiso

más que ninguna.

Aunque jamás lo dijo,

la vieja de la plaza

sé, que esperaba un hijo,

yo sé que lo esperaba,

mas se fueron sus sueños

de trasnochada

y como no volvieron

ya no espera más nada.

wanted to have a child

to call it moon

and for wanting, she wanted it

more than none.

that all the stars

from the heights,

were mother with her,

one by one.

she wanted to have a child

to release it on time,

before life

put a price on it

I tied the fortune

between the fingers

or perhaps madness,

the light or the fear.

wanted to have a child

and she went to look for him.

She checked the galaxies,

star by star

they were filled with fog

her clear eyes,

in the many darkness

of disappointment.

She wanted to have a child

but she has nothing

more than a sad landscape

in the look

and a world of dolls

on the bed

and the soul, like the fourth,

messy.

she is that poor old woman

that sitting in the square,

she sees the children play

hallucinated.

she would have wanted

call it moon...

and for wanting, she wanted it

more than none.

Although she never said it

the old woman in the square

I know that she was expecting a child

I know that she expected it

but his dreams left

late night

and since they did not return

she no longer expects anything.