Ovillejos

What undermines all I attempt?
Contempt!
What heaps sorrow onto me?
Jealousy!
And what gnaws me through and through?
Missing you!

That’s why nothing will do
to make my distress less -
I’m killed by hopelessness,
contempt, jealousy and missing you!

What is it that makes me feel so rough?
Love!
What makes my puffed-up pride deflate?
Fate!
And what’s allowed all this to happen?
Heaven!

That’s why I have no time for them,
these evil strangers that thwart me,
ganging up together to hurt me -
love, fate and heaven!

What will change my luck? What’s left?
Only death!
And as for love, in all its profusion?
Delusion!
For all its woes, what’s the only redress?
Madness!

See how we get into this crazy mess
when trying to heal love’s pains,
if, after all else, the final cure remains
only death, delusion and madness!