Pare Meu - Sílvia Pérez Cruz

Pare meu que ja no ets al poble

Pare meu que potser algun dia molt discretament m’estimaves

Pare meu que te’n vas anar pel carrer sense ganes

Pare meu que potser algun dia molt discret estimava

Per la sang que hem corre tant brava per les venes

Per les faccions de la teva cara que se’m esborra…

Com el crit que ofega el meu pit

Pare meu!

Per la cicatriu que et partia sencer el ventre

Pare meu!

Pels teus secrets de la seva, els dits de la mare

Pare meu!

Per les tardes pàl•lides a la cuina de casa

Pare meu!

Pels somnis que devien ser teus

Escolant-se per la pica…

Pare meu pels germans meus

Escolant-se per la pica…

Que et retrobi la memòria

La memòria del pare i del fill

La memòria la gata vella

La memòria, oh, pare meu

Pels fils que em lliguen als teus noms

Les teves mans i el teu crani rotund

I el teu somriure que no m’agradava…

Quan jo només volia anar a collir

Pare meu!

Fonoll passat el pont dels vermells

Pare meu!

Que retrobi intactes les meves condemnes

Pare meu!

Condemnes de nena de set anys

Pare meu!

Trobo intactes pare meu

La teva història i la meva

Pare meu juntes volent—se

La teva història i la meva…

Gall, gallina, poll, pare meu?

Gall, gallina, poll, pare meu?

Com mai no vam poder ser

Com mai no podran ser ara

Com mai no vam poder ser

Com mai no podran ser ara

Com mai no vam poder ser

Com mai no podran ser ara

Com mai no vam poder ser

Com mai no podran ser…

Gall, gallina, poll, pare meu?

Gall, gallina, poll, pare meu?

Pare meu…

Pare meu que ja no ets al poble…

My father, you are no longer in the village

Dad, you may have loved me very little

Dad, you wandered off the street

My father who perhaps one day very discreetly loved

Because of the blood we have run so wildly through our veins

Because of the features of your face that are being erased from me…

Like the scream that drowns my chest

It seems to me!

Because of the scar that left your whole belly

It seems to me!

For your secrets of hers, mother's fingers

It seems to me!

Pale afternoons in the kitchen at home

It seems to me!

For the dreams that must have been yours

Draining the sink…

My father for my brothers

Draining the sink…

May your memory be restored

The memory of father and son

The memory of the old cat

Memory, oh my father

For the threads that bind me to your names

Your hands and your round skull

And your smile I didn't like

When I just wanted to go harvest

It seems to me!

Fennel past the bridge of the reds

It seems to me!

May my convictions be found intact

It seems to me!

Sentences of a seven-year-old girl

It seems to me!

I find my father intact

Your story and mine

My father wants to be together

Your story and mine

Rooster, hen, chicken, my father?

Rooster, hen, chicken, my father?

How could we never be

How can they never be now

How could we never be

How can they never be now

How could we never be

How can they never be now

How could we never be

How can they never be…

Rooster, hen, chicken, my father?

Rooster, hen, chicken, my father?

It seems to me

My father, you are no longer in the village…