I looked for you in the slave market
and you weren't there
I looked for you in the shop windows
among the prostitutes
and you weren't there
then I looked for you where you weren't
not in the slave market
and not among prostitutes either
not even among the saleswomen with red lips
not even in the greengrocers
not even in the churches
In those places
I couldn't find you
and I was in a hurry
and I had no time to waste
I wasted so much time looking for you
that I only had eternity left
and of her
only a little
that's why I looked for you where not
you were
and then I found you
and I lost you
I found you at the slave market
and I found you among the prostitutes
and among the lip sellers
painted
and in the churches
and in the bars
I found you in the greengrocers
and in the narrow halls
and in the wide
sitting next to me on the bus
and looking at me from the window
from a taxi
and in all those places I found you
and I lost you
only this time I lost you forever
and even if I keep looking for you and
finding
now I know that I will lose you again
and I will look for you again
and to find
only now i know
I only now know
and I know it like I've always known it
from the moment I met you
and even before
I always knew that for
I would have to find you
invent
and I did it
and in doing so I lost you
so as not to lose you
to find you
I should have resigned myself to not
find you
to look for you
Without hope
and you see
I did not do it
and now
the only thing left for me is to continue
looking for you
where are you
and where you are not
and invent yourself again
and lose you again
Just like that
as if I wasn't looking for you
like I don't care about you
as if I didn't love you the way I love you
as if you were not
my only love
as if we were walking arm in arm
and we had a house
and whether or not we had children