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.
Antonio Ballesta
Joan Manuel Serrat, Buenos Aires (2007)