My love, I'm sorry not to have written you sooner

Even though I always wanted to, I could not

What can I say? I'm a little slow

It took me all these years to learn your beautiful language

And still not well enough

So I offer you my first attempt

A simple song which says only that I love you

Already problems present themselves:

Your reflexive pronouns,

Your accords [of gender and number]

Your accents

Not to mention your subjunctive

That fascinating, esoteric, impenetrable mystery

Which for the moment I don't need to use

Because my love is so certain

(Chorus)

Let's pass our nights whispering,

Conjugating your beautiful verbs

Let's begin - you have so many:

I live, you live, we will live

I love, you love, we will love

To leave, to return, to stay

And, of course, to whisper

I love you