El vals del circo [English translation]

In the circuses, stories are woven

in front of and behind the thick curtain,

and a love that was not in the memory

of the beautiful wife

of the illusionist.

And two clowns

who at each sunrise they

drunkenly sing facing the sun

hugging empty bottles,

perhaps

with a serious drinking problem.

A Chinese acrobat

and coquettish

young girls of tender blush,

dancers that time will make ruins

dreaming of marrying

a prosperous doctor.

A skinny tiger that will inspire in the end

a certain tenderness and no fear

of submissively eating from the gentle

hand of his tamer's lover.

Cheerfully pretending

that there are no sunsets,

smiling under the same light,

we will all be just like clowns

under the tent of the blue sky.

All the circuses in the world must

confront a final destiny

and donate their tired elephant

to the population of some

local zoo.

They sell their tent

and clear out without knowing

the last and saddest role

as they leave defeated

never to return,

on the way to inevitable extinction.

Cheerfully pretending

that there are no sunsets,

smiling under the same light,

we will all be just like clowns

under the tent of the blue sky.