Me parece que he visto

Me parece que he visto a una niña tropezar;
se levanta y sonríe porque nadie la observa.
Si su madre hubiera estado cerca, puede que la niña estuviera llorando.
Me parece que el llanto se me asomó a mí, a mis ojos;
pero mamá tampoco está, así que sonrío, me levanto
y sigo mi camino como la niña siguió el suyo.
Ahora me parece que la veo crecer,
que se levanta como algo normal;
que se llena de heridas, de experiencias,
que se hace una mujer con sueños y equilibrios;
aunque al frente le pongan alguna cuerda floja.
Me parece tan tierno ver caer a esa niña
y saber que fui yo, que ahora la recuerdo,
sin el dolor de entonces, con el amor de ahora
y con la claridad para saber que el tiempo permanece
en aquellas caídas que nos ayudan a crecer.

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It seems to me that I have seen

I think I saw a little girl stumble;
she gets up and smiles because no one is watching her.
If her mother had been nearby, the child might have been crying.
It seems to me that the crying came to me, to my eyes;
but mom isn't there either, so I smile, get up...
and go my way as the child went hers.
Now it seems to me that I see her growing up,
that she gets up as a normal thing;
that she fills herself with wounds, with experiences,
that she becomes a woman with dreams and balances;
even if they put a tightrope in front of her.
It seems so tender to me to see that little girl fall down
and to know that it was me, that now I remember her,
without the pain of then, with the love of now
and with the clarity to know that time remains
in those falls that help us grow.