La ley del monte [English translation]

I engraved the stalk of a maguey with your name

interlaced with mine.

Like proof, before the law of the wilderness,

that we were there, in love

You yourself chose the stalk,

the prettiest, the slimmest

and even told me to also engrave it with

two hearts and an arrow

Now you say that you don't remember.

That none of it is true, that they are only words.

I am at peace because in the end,

in our romance, the stalks speak

The same night that you renounced my love,

you also cut down that stalk

You imagined that if they saw it,

to you it would be like an affront

You forgot that the maguey knew

what you swore on our night

and that in its way it could also

recriminate you with a reproach

I don't if you believe in the strange things

that my eyes see. Perhaps you will be impressed

The new stalks that sprout on the maguey

come marked with our names.

• Artist:Vicente Fernández