La Locomotora [English translation]

If monkeys made music

if reptiles sang under your window

poems of their inspiration

then where do I fit.

If trees could cry

if they could move

if the rain reproached the moment of falling

if the desert made versess and break the heat in pieces

if the heat hated itself and travel to another place

then where do I fit.

It conquered the earth

it ruled the moon

it discovered the fire

and the seven seas.

Because who rules and pulls this wagon

who drives the great locomotive

because who rules and pulls this boat

who writes about revolution.

Who drives the great locomotive