♫Milonga de Manuel Flores♫(HQ): “To die is to have been born” (J.L.Borges – A.Troilo)

For the others the fever
And the sweat of the agony
And for me, four bullets
When daylight comes

Manuel Flores is going to die
That’s something for sure
Dying is a habit
That most people have

Tomorrow the bullet’s coming
And with the bullet, oblivion
So said Merlin the sage
To die is to have been born

And yet it pains me
To bid farewell to life
This thing one gets so used to
So sweet, and so familiar

At dawn l see my hand
l see my veins in my hand
l look at them oddly
As if they were someone else’s

How many things on their way
These eyes of mine have seen!
Who knows what they will see
After Christ has judged me

For the others the fever
And the sweat of the agony
And for me, four bullets
When daylight comes