Menos tu vientre

Except for your belly

Songs and ballads of absence, 1942

Menos tu vientre

Cancionero y romancero de ausencias, 1942

Except for your belly,

all is confused.

Except for your belly,

all is fleeting 

future, barren,

murky past.

Except for your belly,

all is hidden.

Except for your belly,

all uncertain,

all at an end,

dust without world.

Except for your belly,

all is dark.

Except for your belly,

clear and deep.

Menos tu vientre,

todo es confuso.

Menos tu vientre,

todo es futuro

fugaz, pasado

baldío, turbio.

Menos tu vientre,

todo es oculto.

Menos tu vientre,

todo inseguro,

todo postrero,

polvo sin mundo.

Menos tu vientre,

todo es oscuro.

Menos tu vientre

claro y profundo.