MILONGA
SENTIMENTAL.

A milonga to remember you, a sentimental milonga. Others lament in tears, I sing so as not to cry. Your love dried up all at once, you never said why. I console myself by thinking it was a woman's betrayal.

A man, to love you deeply, a man, to wish you well, a man, to forget your wrongs, for I have already forgiven you. Perhaps you will never know it, perhaps you cannot believe it, perhaps it makes you laugh to see me lying at your feet!

It is easy to slash with a knife to settle a betrayal, or stake upon a dagger the fate of a passion. But it is not easy to cut free the leather thongs of an infatuation, when they are tied so tightly to the post of the heart.

A milonga your absence made. A milonga of remembrance. A milonga that they should never sing at your balcony. So you may return with the night and leave with the sun. To say yes to you sometimes or to shout no at you.