Roberto Perez-Franco

I don’t know you

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Original in Spanish

I don’t know you, my beautyI have seen you only for a few hoursI have spoken only a few sentences with youI have exchanged only a couple of glances with youI don’t even know your last nameI have no idea what you think of life, of the world, of meI know nothing about you!

But I can’t get you out of my mindI can’t tear you out of my heartYou are always thereIn my wakingIn my sleepIn my longing

With your smiling dimplebetween the pink frost of your cheeksand the snow of your face

With your long, soft hair,waving in the windlike a banner of freedom

With your twin breasts,like flasks made of wheat

Beautiful, like a star of the southern skyBeautiful, like my dreamBeautiful… my beauty… I miss you so much!

Because I don’t know youand yet,I know you so well!