Soy [English translation]

I am a lightning

born of the scream,

happy meteorite

from some explosion.

I am the join

of two celestial bodies,

my mother and my father

in the eye of God.

I came into the world

at sowing time,

the wheat on the threshing floor,

the fruit on the flower.

Pulled out from

a furrow of the garden,

tomatoe, pepper,

potato and melon.

I am an old

school desk,

chalkboard, inkwell,

schoolbag and Catón1.

Also I

ate yellow cheese,

drank powdered milk2

and sang the "Cara al sol"3.

I am the

Sacred Body of Christ,

rosary, novena,

sin and pardon.

I am a poor

poultry house,

a chestnut tree and a holm oak,

a sheep and a shepherd.

I am what we were yesterday,

I am what is coming,

I am a tenderness wish,

a lullaby,

I am part of you.

A sailor without sea,

an extremeño4 in Madrid,

a tree from Berzocana5,

the gum cistus's flower6

of your garden.

I am a slight

whispering on time,

a wind caress

saying goodbye to me.

I am the memory

of a long journey,

an emigrant family

to a better life.

I am the memory

of a suburbs time,

outskirts town

of tinplate and cardboard.

I am a verse

thrown to the future,

a sure project,

a guitar and a song.

I am what we were yesterday,

I am what is coming,

I am a tenderness wish,

a lullaby,

I am part of you.

A sailor without sea,

an extremeño4 in Madrid,

a tree from Berzocana5 ,

the gum cistus's flower6

of your garden.

1. Common name of the book "Catón Metódico de los niños", used as a lonely text book in Spanish schools during the Franco regime.2. Both yelow cheese and powdered milk were products included in the American human aid to Spain from 1955 to 1963.3. "Cara al sol" is the name of the "Falange Española de las JONS" anthem, which became a anthem during Franco regime, sung by students before they came into the school.4. a. b. The demonym for the inhabitants of Extremadura, region of Spain.5. a. b. Village in northeast Cáceres province (Extremadura), in which the songwriter was born.6. a. b. Cistus ladanifer is a species of flowering plant in the family Cistaceae, very common in Extremadura, which has beautiful white flowers in springtime. The common name gum cistus is applied to resin-bearing species, especially C. ladanifer.