Amor de Pobre - Love of the Poor

(Vista de Guayaquil desde el Río Guayas desde el antiguo estero Carrión hoy calle Mejía hasta la casa Cosistorial actual Municipio, dibujo de la Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion 1853 - View of Guayaquil from the Guayas River from the old Carrión estuary today Mejía street to the current Cosistorial house Municipality, drawing of the Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion 1853)

Cuántas veces dije "quiero"

cuántas otras la mirada

levanté incansable al cielo

para ver inmensa tu alma...

Pero tú... indiferente

desde arriba me mirabas;

eras algo que se mira,

que se mira y no se alcanza.

(Pintura del artista norteamericano Steve Hanks)

How many times I said “I want,”

how many times I lifted my gaze,

tirelessly, toward the heavens,

to behold your soul, immense...

But you... indifferent,

gazed down at me from above;

you were something to be looked upon,

something seen but never reached.