Palavras proibidas [English translation]

The night took you away and divided

in two, one word.

There always remain shreds

of the words that have been said,

to be guessed

Because the inside of the words

that are divided in two,

is the distorted echo

of what we don't say,

the forbidden words.

The night took you away and left me

unfinished memories

and sensed1 secrets

and the silence instead of

murmured words.

And the silence of the words,

hardly spoken between us,

will be crying out your name

around the corners of the streets

from behind my voice.

1. a presensation of