My tactic is

to watch you

to learn how you are

to love you as you are

my tactic is

to talk to you

and listen to you

to build with words

an indestructible bridge

my tactic is

to stay in your memory

I don't know how nor

with what pretext

but to stay in you

my tactic is

to be frank

and to know that you are frank

and that we don't sell each other

simulations

so that between the two of us

there is no curtain

or abyss

my strategy is

instead

deeper and more

simple

my strategy is

that one day

I don't know how nor

with what pretext

you finally need me

— Mario Benedetti, Tactics and Strategy