In honor of the Mexican holiday, Constitution Day, we present this work by one of Mexico’s great poets.

 

When you will be gone
The shadows will envelop me,
When you will be gone,
I will be alone with my pain.

I will evoke this idyll
During my blue hours
When you will be gone
The shadows will envelop me.

And in the darkness
Of the small bedroom
Where during a warm afternoon
I stroked all of you
My arms will look for you
My mouth will kiss you
And I will inhale from the air
That smell of roses.
When you will be gone
The shadows will envelop me.