Igual que una sombra

Just Like a Shadow

Igual que una sombra

Today I saw her after a year,Hoy la vi después de un año,
today she crossed my wound.hoy se cruzó por mi herida.
My lovely, affectionate doll was going,Iba hermosa mi muñeca mimosa,
she was next to another owner, my dream;iba al lado de otro dueño, mi sueño;
that dream of my life.aquel sueño de mi vida.
But her heart was the samePero era igual su corazón
that is always in my love,que en mi amor siempre está,
and in my starless nightsy en mis noches sin estrellas
she is my great pain.ella es mi gran dolor.

She is a shadowElla es una sombra
that clouds my mindque nubla mi frente
when, unintentionally, I mention her.cuando, sin querer, la nombra.
She is my past, she is my present.Es mi pasado, es mi presente.
And I can't erase her from my mind.Y yo no puedo borrarla de mi mente.
She's in my quatrains,Ella en mis cuartetas,
she's in my anguish,ella en mis angustias,
she's in my poet's pain;ella en mi dolor de poeta;
like gray tango roots,como raíces de tango grises,
she is in my heart.ella está en mi corazón.

Winter comes again,Otra vez llega el invierno,
and my life without loves.y mi vivir sin amores.
Her long-awaited call no longer sounds,Ya no suena su llamado esperado,
and I don't hear her pure tenderness.y no escucho sus ternuras, tan puras.
How empty I have become!¡Qué vacío me he quedado!
But it's the same, heart,Pero es igual, corazón,
she is always in my love,en mi amor siempre está,
my sad verses belong to herde ella son mis versos tristes
tangos of pain.tangos de dolor.