La Tregua

The Truce

La Tregua

The fire of a cigarette shines over there,El fuego de un cigarro brilla allá,
The smoke floats and dies as it rises.el humo flota y muere al ascender.
Among the grass, I feel sobbingEntre la hierba siento sollozar
because this is not peace,porque ésta no es la paz,
the truce is barely there.la tregua apenas es.

The war stinks all around,La guerra apesta inmunda alrededor
while I write to you about my rifle,mientras te escribo sobre mi fusil
perhaps the last love letter.tal vez la última carta de amor.
I don't want your pain,No quiero tu dolor,
I don't want your pain,no quiero tu dolor,
but today I sensed it.pero hoy lo presentí.

The only truth is not the napalmLa única verdad no es el napalm
nor the rifle.ni es el fusil.
My whole being wants to escape from the cruelTodo mi ser quiere escapar ante la cruel
obligationobligación
of killing someone I neverde asesinar a quien jamás
knew,yo conocí,
I knew.yo conocí.

Today I suddenly remembered my childhood:Hoy recordé de pronto mi niñez:
I saw the blue sky, the time that passed,vi el cielo azul, el tiempo que pasó,
my brother in the sun, running through the cornfields,mi hermano al sol, corriendo entre la mies,
while here we both were killing.mientras aquí matábamos los dos.

Tell whoever you want that he already deserted,Dile a quien quieras que él ya desertó,
that he went far away, that he won't come back.que se fue lejos, que no volverá.
I will search for the flower he didn't find,Yo buscaré la flor que no encontró,
the flower of friendship,la flor de la amistad,
and I will plant it in the ground where he is.y la echaré en la tierra donde está.

The fire of a cigarette shines over there,El fuego de un cigarro brilla allá,
The smoke floats and dies as it rises.el humo flota y muere al ascender.
Among the grass, I feel sobbingEntre la hierba siento sollozar
because this is not peace,porque ésta no es la paz,
because this is not peace,porque ésta no es la paz,
the truce is barely there.la tregua apenas es.