Roberto Perez-Franco
Poem

everything

Original in Spanish

What have we done, my beauty,with the love that God gave us?

It was precious, immense,perfect, eternal

Do you remember that it was eternal?

All the magic went from us in a momentall the enchantment died in a secondWhere did the love go that bound usin that kiss of fire? Where,my beauty, did the endless dream go,the eternal miracle?

We had everything,my beauty, everything…and we let love die!

Now it is too late.

The endless dream,the eternal miracle,has ended…

Notes

Translated from the Spanish by the author.

Appears inEssential Anthology (2026)