| No ha podido olvidar mi corazón | My heart, unyielding, guards a wound not stilled, |
| Aquellos ojos tristes soñadores que yo amé | Those eyes—twilight-deep, dreaming, sorrow-spilled, whom I once loved— |
| La dejé por conquistar una ilusión | Her shadow left behind, I chased a phantom gleam, |
| Y perdí su rastro, y ahora sé que es ella | Until her trail dissolved, and now I see: she was the dream |
| Todo lo que yo buscaba | I wandered seas to find, the all I ever sought. |
| Y ahora estoy aqui | Now here I stand, |
| Buscándola de nuevo | A pilgrim through cold years, searching for her hand anew, |
| Ya no está, se fue | Yet absence thickens—she is gone, the echo fled. |
| Tal vez usted la ha visto digale | If you, by fate or chance, have seen her passing by, tell her— |
| Que yo siempre la adoré | That always, in secret chapels of the heart, I worshipped her, |
| Y que nunca la olvidé | And her name, burning, was never lost to me. |
| Que mi vida es un desierto y muero yo de sed | My life is a barren delta—dying of thirst beneath a crimson sky— |
| Y digale también, que sólo junto a ella puedo respirar | And say as well: beside her, and only there, my lungs recall the air. |
| No hay brillo en las estrellas | The stars have shed their silver tongues— |
| Ya ni el sol, me calienta | Even the sun withholds its flame from my chilled skin. |
| Y estoy muy solo aqui, no sé a donde fue | I dwell alone among these shadows, blind to where she vanished. |
| Por favor digale usted | I beg you, let her know— |
| Fueron tantos los momentos que la amé | So many hours I was allowed to love her— |
| Que siento sus caricias y su olor esta en mi piel | Her touch lingers: scent and whisper pressed within my skin, |
| Cada noche la abrazaba junto a mi | Each night I drew her close, an ember in the dusk, |
| La cubría de besos, y entre mil caricias | Enwreathed her in silent kisses, and among a thousand tender storms, |
| La llevaba a la locura | I led her, trembling, to the borderlands of rapture. |