A Departing Guest Lyrics

A barren woman, looked upon with disdain

An enemy to her substantial man

Detested and deserted

He wishes her death.

A tree grown in a cave doesn't bear fruit

She lived in the shade of life, a prisoner of misery

Asking for a child to find comfort and consolation...

The tree of the cave blossomed to bear fruit at last.

Late at night she started her successive cry

A cry of life's partition from life...

A cry of continuance in the firmament of nothingness…

As sun came out, an infant opened his eyes.

He quivered and closed them for the last time

The doctor took the child and on his cheeks fell tears

Whispering: "He is a departing guest."

The child passed away while the father was celebrating…

Born at dawn and dead at sunrise...

Born like a thought, he died like a sigh, and disappeared like a shadow

He didn't live to console and comfort his mother.

His life began at the end of the night and ended at the beginning of the day.

A pearl brought by the tide to the coast

Returned by the ebb into the depth of the sea....

A dear guest illuminating the mother's heart

Whose departure killed her soul.

Placed between her arms, she embraced him

"You have come to take me away my child;

You have come to show me the way that leads to the coast.

Here I am, my child; lead me and let us leave this dark cave."

Sunrays penetrated the window curtains

Falling upon two calm bodies lying on a bed

Guarded by the profound dignity of silence

Shaded by the wings of death.

She was shrouded with her white wedding dress

The child's coffin his mother's arms

His grave her calm breast

Two corpses carried in one coffin…