Skip to main content

There are no happy Tango songs.....

The White Chapel
lyrics by Hector Marcó
In the white chapel
of a town out in the provinces
very close to a crystal clear creek,
your hands
drove me to prayer.
Your hands that used to enflame
my child’s heart,
and the foot of a Holy Christ
you gave me a drink
from the waters of tenderness.
Happily the moon watched us
come down the mountain
following the stars,
drinking among your goats
a little dose of love…
and today those timid bells
are dark birds
that toll from afar
the call to prayer.
Your voice died in the river,
and in the white chapel
it left an empty space…
empty, like both our souls.

La capilla blanca
En la capilla blanca
de un pueblo provinciano
muy junto a un arroyuelo de cristal,
me hincaban a rezar
tus manos.
Tus manos que encendían
mi corazón de niño,
y al pie de un Santo Cristo,
las aguas del cariño
me dabas de beber.

Feliz nos vio la luna
bajar por la montaña
siguiendo las estrellas,
bebiendo entre tus cabras,
un ánfora de amor…
y hoy son aves oscuras
esas tímidas campanas
que doblan a lo lejos
el toque de oración.

Tu voz murió en el río,
y en la capilla blanca
quedó un lugar vacío…
vacío como el alma de los dos.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Recap 2019

Well well well, here we come again to the end of another Tango year in 2019. Granted, this year was a lot more muted for me, just one Tango Prelims Championship, one Fame Tango Weekend extravaganza, one Tango marathon (shit, just one?!). This years tango centered very much around home, no crazy travels (thanks to change in job), no multi-country tango events (thanks to no budget + no time), a smattering of lessons. But internally, centeredness, duende. Next year, Taipei Tango Weekend, Singapore Tango Marathon + Lisbon for food, travels and Tango. Where is my tango this year? 10 years since that fateful day running to Michigan Union in shorts and t-shirt with flipflops, hair wet from a swim on a balmy end of September day, 3 to 4 weeks into the new semester. Not knowing this would kickstart one of my greatest passions in this life. The one that brings me into the world of friendships, arguments, travels and meetings. All sorts of people, friends, acquaintances, annoyances. The ...

I'm...Back?

Honestly, it has been a struggle to get back into Tango. I'm having a bit of difficulty figuring out why, but it might just be a combination of having disconnected from it in my regular weekly schedule because of COVID, same COVID making it impossible for me to travel to other countries to dance and join Marathons, a number of years since starting and feeling stagnated, and honestly just feeling a waning interest overall. There is still motivation there, it isn't entirely gone, but life has gotten into the way. The using Tango as a bit of an emotional crutch has also been replaced by a real life human being, so that is yet another reason for the increasingly ambivalent attitude I seem to be having to the dance nowadays. All that being said, I did just fly to Singapore this weekend for Tomas workshop and because damnit, I am fan #1 in Malaysia, unabashedly! Time to see if it's time to kickstart the organising again!

Egos

I have been shifting focus internally all over the place recently. Sometimes I wish this conscious incompetence would just go away for a while, so I can shut up the critic in my head that seems to have gotten louder the more I dance. Are you balanced? Did you embellish to that quaver? Why is your rotation on the left so weak? Knees keep banging into the guy! Ochos not feeling supported! Don't hang off him! Disassociate damnit! Left toes also feeling a lot more pain recently. Hello bunions, you can go away now please. Looking forward to KLTF. Had a quick discussion about egos in Tango as I am getting irked by certain people because of this. The ones who think they are "the shit" and where they can barely acknowledge the people who supported them from the start, thinking that they were the only ones responsible for their current outcome. Bullshit. Which only serves to remind myself never to turn into them (at the risk of course, of going the opposite way an...