Si el poeta eres tú [English translation]

When the poet is you,

as the poet said,

and you are the one who brought down stars

in a thousand nights

of coloured rains,

What can I tell you, Comandante1?

When you were the one who brought his profile onto the future

and showed it for the first time with the voices of guns

it was you, warrior forever,

for eternity.

What can I sing for you, Comandante?

In vain I search for your pain in my guitar

and in my garden now everything is beautiful,

there is no fear anymore.

What can I leave you, Comandante?

If it would not be to exchange my guitar for your fate

or to deny the sun a song

or to die without love

What can I sing for you, Comandante?

When the poet is you,

as the poet said,

and you are the one who brought down stars

in a thousand nights

of coulored rains.

What can I sing for you, Comandante?

1. Che Guevara