My Strategy

Mario Benedetti

My tactic is
to look at you
to learn how you are
to love you as you are

my tactic is
to talk to you
and listen to you
to build with words
an indestructible bridge

my tactic is
to stay in your memory
I don't know how and I don't know
with what pretext
but to stay in you

my tactic is
to be frank
and to know that you are frank
and that we don't sell ourselves
simulacra
so that between the two of us
there is no curtain
nor abysses

my strategy is
on the other hand
deeper and simpler
simpler

my strategy is
that one day
I don't know how and I don't know
with what pretext
you finally need me.