While I forget you The rain falls through the window I feel the sound of silence and I miss you In the light afternoon breeze While I forget you Life passes without hummingbirds Without landscapes or directions Without moonlight, or any reason While I forget you I remember our love Coloring the warm afternoons in rio With the tints of our lightness Our smiles and certainties of my steps on your footsteps I remember our arm-kisses, our leg-hugs In our eternal hours But then, I wipe off the pain of the moment From loving comes the soothing And from tears I come to laughter And inside of me I lift a toast to love Not the one that what had been silenced But the one that still sings While the rain passes While I forget you Time runs down without any joy I see absences, emptiness, vanities In the hearts of the city While I forget you Are your poems necessary? Which countries, which landscapes Can numb your pain While I forget you I remember our love Coloring the warm afternoons in rio With the tints of our lightness, our smiles And certainties of my steps on your footsteps I remember our arm-kisses, our leg-hugs In our eternal hours And then, I wipe off the pain of the moment From loving comes the soothing And from tears I come to laughter And inside of me I lift a toast to love Not the one that what had been silenced But the one that sings While the rain passes…