Ruben Dario - Melancholy (To Domingo Bolivar) lyrics

You, my brother, holding the light - Lend me some. I'm blind. Can't find my way in the dark. Can't escape the tempests or storms. Music and blinding dreams have driven me crazy. That is my curse. To dream. Poetry is an iron vest with a thousand darts. It's wrapped around my soul, its bloody barbs wet with endless drops of melancholy. I roam the bitter world, insane and blind, and I think, at times, that the way I find is long - or very short... So, torn between courage and agony, it's hard to bear the burdens of my heart. Can't you hear those drops, that melancholy?