Amor de Pobre - Poor Man's Love

(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 love"
how many others look
I raised tirelessly to heaven
to see your soul immense ...

But you ... indifferent
from above you looked at me;
you were something that you look at,
that looks and is not reached.