Prohibido prohibir [English translation]

One can't forbid nor deny

The right to live the reason to dream

One can't forbid the believing nor the creating

Nor excluding the earth nor hiding the moon

One can't forbid a bit of love

Nor keeping the flower from blooming

Nor the soul from vibrating nor the pulse from beating

Nor life from walking can be forbidden

One can't forbid the choice of thinking

Nor prevent the storm in the sea

One can't forbid that in an inner flight

A swallow leaves looking for a better sky

One can't forbid the vital impulse

Nor the honey drop nor the salt grain

Nor the unique desires nor the endless desire

Nor laughing and crying can be forbidden

One can't forbid the iridescence

Of the dying evening in the sunset

One can't forbid the zeal for singing

Nor the duty of saying what shouldn't be silenced

Only the man unable to understand and to feel

Has achieved in the end to forbid his greatness

And refuses the taste and the simple truth

Of living love and in total freedom

If I had the power to decide

I'd dictate as a law, forbidden to forbid