If someone knocks on your door

 -Gabriel García Márquez

If someone knocks on your door, my friend,

and something in your blood beats and does not rest

and your stalk water, trembling,

It is a liquid source of harmony.

 

If someone knocks on your door and still

you have time to be beautiful

and fits all April in a rose

and rose bleeds day

 

If someone knocks on your door one morning

sound of doves and bells

and still you believe in pain and poetry

 

If life is still true and verse exists.

If someone knocks on your door and you're sad,

opens, which is love, my friend.

 

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