The rain has fallen drop by drop Wave by wave Sea by sea Until the sun has risen, dancing in its wonderful light. The children have laughed And flown through the trees of almond, apple and orange. The girls have laughed And become conscious of their beautiful rounded breasts. The sweethearts who have been smashed by love And the screams of the body constrained every night Have laughed. The sparrows and starlings have laughed In the middle of light and smoke. The clocks and hospitals have laughed. So have the patients, searching for a hope of recovery. The policeman and the dictator have laughed. So have the explosive-maker And the bribed border guards. The saints, the amazed, the exiled And the semi-dressed women dancers have laughed. So have the pupils The bankers The taxi drivers The coolies and the fruit sellers The thieves, the detectives The genius and the quasi-genius So have the effeminate and the passers by. Those fond of nudeness And of tables of plentiful wine have laughed. The murdered and the drowned have laughed Then the dead altogether have laughed The laughter has increased Increased Increased I alone was reflecting on the scene and crying. I alone was reflecting on the scene And slowly dying.