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The Horse I Never Had

José Larralde

El Caballo Que No Tuve

Al caballo que no tuve yo le llamaba distancia
Pero distancias hallé y ahí mi caballo no andaba
Entonces yo comprendí que se llamaba esperanza
Fiero pa' hallarlo en el campo caballito de la nada
Yo mismo le hice un recáu con cueros de mi nostalgia

Y unos estribos de nuncas y un cojinillo de lágrimas
En un clavo en la pared tenía colgada una manta
Que la tejí de ilusiones y bordadas de palabras
Las veces que me tapé con aquella vieja manta

Cada invierno fue una rosa que el tiempo me regalaba
Recogí el sol de la escarcha reflejáu en la mañana
Y lo até a los cuatro vientos de mi imaginada manta
Pa' que luciera orgulloso mi caballito esperanza

Pal caballo que no tuve, macetié guasca por guasca
Del cuero de un ventarrón de esos que no tienen alma
Con la argolla que el rocío le hace a la luna temprana
Hice un lazo livianito como pa' pialar un ánima

El cabresto y el bozal se los quité a una calandria
Porque soñé que a mi flete con un silbo le sobraba
Me hice un rebenque de trébol con iniciales de plata
Que saqué de un arroyito entre piedritas de nácar

Todo pa' que mi caballo no ande mezquinando alzada
Y hasta he cortao una flor pa' ponerle como marca
Pero pasaron los años, y nunca llegó esperanza
Caballito que no tuve, ya no importa tu tardanza

Las pilchas, las pilchas las regalé y ya no me queda nada
A quién le pongo un recáu con cojinillo de lágrima
Y una manta de ilusiones y bordada de palabras
Esas misma que no tuve pa' defenderte esperanza

Cuando andabas a lo lejos y te llamaba distancia
Y hoy, y hoy que ya te recorrí, no me ha servido de nada
Si hasta te usé pa' morir desde adentro de mi alma
Por tener un corazón y por llamarte esperanza

The Horse I Never Had

To the horse I never had, I called it distance
But distances I found and there my horse didn't walk
Then I understood that it was called hope
Fierce to find it in the field, little horse from nowhere
I myself made a saddle with the leather of my nostalgia

And some stirrups of never and a little cushion of tears
On a nail on the wall, I had a blanket hanging
That I weaved from illusions and embroidered with words
The times I covered myself with that old blanket

Every winter was a rose that time gave me
I picked up the sun from the frost reflected in the morning
And I tied it to the four winds of my imagined blanket
So that my little horse of hope would proudly shine

For the horse I never had, I cut piece by piece
From the leather of a gust of wind, one of those without a soul
With the ring that the dew makes to the early moon
I made a light lasso as if to rope a soul

The halter and the muzzle I took from a calandria
Because I dreamed that with a whistle my freight was enough
I made a whip of clover with silver initials
That I took from a little stream among nacre stones

All for my horse not to walk sparingly
And I even cut a flower to put it as a mark
But the years passed, and hope never arrived
Little horse I never had, your delay no longer matters

The clothes, the clothes I gave away and I have nothing left
To whom do I make a saddle with a little cushion of tears
And a blanket of illusions and embroidered with words
The same ones I didn't have to defend you, hope

When you were far away and I called you distance
And today, and today that I already traveled you, it has not served me at all
Even used you to die from inside my soul
For having a heart and for calling you hope

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