Tu Portret from Gracia by Sarah Aroeste

LADINO:
El dia ke de mi partites
Tu portret a mi deshates.
“Vo tornar” tu me dishites,
“Yo te rogo me asperar.”

Koro:
Ande stas tu, mi kerido?
Tu portret st’aki enkolgado.
De ti nunka yo m’olvido.
No se mas kualo pensar.

De mi vida tu salites,
Ni una letra me mandates.
Ande te desparesites?
Yo no kedo de yorar.

Dia i noche sospirando,
A tus bezos vo pensando,
I el tiempo sta pasando
Tu figura a kontemplar.

Tu portret yo vo mirando.
La dolor me sta matando,
A tu alma sto rogando:
No me deshes sin avlar.


ENGLISH:
The day that you abandoned me
Your portrait was all that you left.
“I will return” you said to me,
“I want you to wait for me.”

Chorus:
Where are you, my dear?
Your picture is here hanging.
Nothing of you I forget,
I do not know what more to think.

You exited from my life,
Not even a letter did you send me.
Where have you disappeared?
I cannot rest from crying.

Day and night I sigh,
Remembering your kisses,
Time goes on to pass
As I contemplate your face.

I stare at your picture.
The sadness kills me,
From your soul I beg:
Don’t leave without telling me.

• Jewish
• Ladino
• Sephardic
• World
• world fusion
• Massachusetts