Soneto a Mama [English translation]

It's not that I don't return because I have forgotten

of your smell of thyme and kitchen

They say that it looks much clearer from afar,

that it's not the same who wanders and who walks.

And I knew that love has green eyes,

that the deck has four suits,

that what is lost never returns,

and the tide rises and then falls.

I knew that simplicity is not foolish,

that one cannot confuse value and price,

and any bite can be a delicacy.

If the horizon is light and the heading a kiss,

it's not that I don't return because I have forgotten;

it's that I have lost the way back.

Mother...

• Artist:Joan Manuel Serrat
• Album:Para Vivir/Cancion Infantil