A Song
I would like to write a song
That is so vibrant and so intimate
That the earth would adopt it
As if it had sprung like the stream
From the land's memory
As if no one had written it but life itself
And my song would travel along
From bird to wing, to tree
To breeze to heart to breath to song
Because a song belongs to everyone
Like the spring
Una Canción
Quisiera escribir una canción
Que sea tan vibrante y tan íntima
Que la tierra la adoptara
Como si hubiera brotado como el arroyo
De la memoria de la tierra
Como si nadie la hubiera escrito sino la vida misma
Y mi canción viajaría
De pájaro a ala, a árbol
A brisa a corazón a aliento a canción
Porque una canción pertenece a todos
Como la primavera