This is It by Leonard Cohen *Traducción al español*

Esto es todo*

Esto es todo
no iré tras de ti
me acostaré media hora
Esto es todo
no descenderé 
en tu recuerdo
No frotaré mi cara en él más
Bostezaré
Me estiraré
insertaré una aguja
desde mi nariz
y sacaré mi cerebro
No quiero amarte
por el resto de mi vida
Quiero que tu piel
se desprenda de mi piel
Quiero que mi brazo
suelte tu brazo
No quiero vivir
con esta lengua colgante 
y otra inmunda canción
en el lugar
de mi bate de béisbol
Esto es todo
voy a dormir ahora, cariño
No intentes detenerme
Voy a dormir
Tendré una cara suave
y babearé
Estaré dormido
me ames o no
Esto es todo
El Nuevo Orden Mundial
de arrugas y mal aliento
no será
lo que era
comiéndote
con mis ojos cerrados
esperando que no despiertes
y huyas
Será algo más
Algo peor
Algo más tonto
Algo como esto
pero más corto

*Translation to Spanish by Marjha Paulino



This is it*

This is it
I'm not coming after you
I'm going to lie down for half an hour
This is it
I'm not going down
on your memory
I'm not rubbing my face in it any more
I'm going to yawn
I'm going to stretch
I'm going to put a knitting needle
up to my nose
and poke out my brain
I don't want to love you
for the rest of my life
I want your skin
to fall off my skin
I want my clamp
to release my clamp
I don't want to live
with this tongue hanging out
and another filthy song
in the place
of my baseball bat
This is it
I'm going to sleep now darling
Don't try to stop me
I'm going to sleep
I'll have a smooth face
I'm going to drool
I'll be asleep
whether you love me or not
This is it
The New World Order
of wrinkles and bad breath
It's not going to be
like it was before
eating you
with my eyes closed
hoping you won't get up
and go away
It's going to be something else
Something worse
Something sillier
Something like this
only shorter


*The poem was took from The Book of Longing (Penguin Books, 2007).


Illustration: Akira Kusaka

Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet and novelist. In 2011 he was awarded with the Prince of Asturias Award for literature. His work included topics such as politics, religion, sexuality and personal relationships. Some of his collections of poetry are Flowers for Hitler (1964), Death of a Lady's Man (1978), Book of Mercy (1984), which book of him won the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for Poetry.