The instability of signs (Insubstistencia de los signos)

Back home, safe and sound, happy, exhausted.  Do I really have to go back to work?  From my Dad’s book Twilight theory (Teoría del crepúsculo).

The instability of signs (Insubstistencia de los signos)

The last fruits will fall

so will the last few leaves

and under the summer a surviving flower

fugitive of the spring.

The signs will fade,

signs of those kept forever by the bark,

those who wrote for eternity

an “I love you” with tears of sap.

The hard heart of the wood

will become dust of inclement rains and suns.

Later not even the fruits nor the signs

or the flower or the leaves of summer.

There will be hope

in the roots and the dead leaves,

fertilizer for the land.