José Afonso

Aveiro, August 2, 1929 - Setúbal,February 23, 1987

LOVE DOES NOT DECEIVE ME

Love does not deceive me
With his slightness
If of a old flame
badly lives, bitterness

From one black spot
From a cold rock
Which love not delivery
In the empty night?

And the voices embark
In a afflict silence
The more they separate
More listened is the shout

To the waters surface
Sailor night
comes slowly
For my side

In new fields
Near of a wall tree
born red flowers
For the Spring

Thus you know
Sister lark
Say me if you wait
For the rising day

José Afonso
Translated by Isaac Pereira