Adolfo Guerrero.

I am an honest man
From the land of palm trees
And I wish before I meet my death
To cast these verses from my soul.

I come from everywhere,
Towards everywhere I go:
I am art among arts
And in the peaks I am a peak.

I know the exotic names
Of herbs and flowers,
And of deadly betrayals
And sublime sorrows.

In the dark night I have seen
Rays of the pure splendor
Of divine beauty raining down
Upon my head.

I have seen the sprouting of wings
From the shoulders of beautiful women
And the coming forth of butterflies
From piles of rubble.

I have seen a man who lives
With a dagger in his side,
Who never uttered the name
Of the woman who killed him.

Everything is beautiful and steadfast,
Everything is music and reason,
And, like a diamond, everything
Is coal before its light.

If asked to choose the jewelers
brightest gem,
I would choose an honest friend
And put love aside.

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