Flor y Canto - a sestina by el poquito

What I leave you is a flower

and a well-loved song.

This will be your inheritance

to pass on to the next generation

of vital, young ones that have

patiently waited to receive. 

In all that I receive, 

it is the aroma of the flower

in the dream that I have, 

in the birth of the song, 

being sung to the next generation

of all that is rich and worthy of inheritance.

All the riches of inheritance, 

all the gifts you receive, 

are the music - the generation

of poetry in flower, 

of love into song

and all that I have

because all that I have

to give you for inheritance

is the poetry of a song

that was given to me to receive -

the blossom of a flower

from an ancient generation.

And to your generation...

all the dreams that I have, 

all the colors that flower, 

all the beauty of inheritance

and wealth to receive

I give you as a song

to be heard in your heart, a song

to be passed to the next generation

awaiting to receive

all that we have

to give as inheritance:

the song and the flower.

Rising up in song, I give you all that I have:

the melody, the generation of loving inheritance...

the light we receive like a garden in flower...