Bachata Rosa
A FarewellDear Jonghyun,
Happy birthday, friend! Wherever you are, I wish for you an eternity full of light and happiness. I wanted to dedicate a song to you today. To be honest, it’s a little hard not to think of sad songs when I think of you these days. But I don’t want you to be sad anymore, Jonghyun-ah, so I promise that I will only sing happy songs to you from now on. This song isn’t the type of music that you normally listened to, but the lyrics remind me so much of you. I hope you can come to enjoy it as much as I do.
“I gift you with a rose, I found it in my path. I don’t know if it’s bare, or if it has only one dress. If summer waters it, or if it forgets in solitude. If it was once was loved, or if it has a hidden love.
Oh love, you are the rose that gives me warmth. You are the dream of my loneliness. A slumber of blue, and eclipse of the sea. Oh love, I’m a satellite and you are the sun. A universe of mineral water. A space of light that only you can fill, oh my love.
I'll gift you with an Autumn.
A day between April and June.
A ray of hope.
A heart.
Oh love, you are the rose that gives me warmth....A space of light that only you can fill, oh my love.”
-Bachata Rosa, Juan Luis Guerra
I grew up with my parents playing this on the radio. To be honest, I don’t think I ever appreciated how truly beautiful this song is until I got older. How comforting it is. This song has been a part of some of the happiest memories I have as a child. The few precious times I got to see my family while growing up, and the gatherings where we would sit down on the table to eat the traditional food of my country. My grandma would also make cookies and we would dance to songs like this, as a family.
To me, this song is a reminder of home. Of the love that my parents have for each other and for me. I hope that today, if I think about you a lot while singing this song, you will get to feel at least a little of that warmth and happiness. I hope it can remind you of home and of the love we all have for you.
It’s been almost four months. You are still terribly missed, Jonghyun-ah. I hope you get to feel all our love today. Happy birthday, angel.
I’ll only sing happy songs to you from now on.
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