by Gabriela Gonçalves Barbosa | |
Published on: Nov 5, 2003 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
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Cool, interesting and curious things Morbid and brightly alive things Stupid, intriguing, irritating Embarrassing, rough and futile All of them pass in front of my eyes, Between the sunrise and the sunset Pass through the eyes without realizing I spare my energies I try to close my mind’s windows For the mundane things Like a peevish and annoyed kid that doesn’t regard As this ungrateful world Never regarded my poor child Having its deepest feelings ridiculed, On all the imaginable ways Having nothing to run over, Writing weak and bad-taste poems My eyes tired of seeing nothing happen And repeating all over in a routine, Dramatically, drastically. To be born. To live. To dream. And die of that. Die to the concrete. And live to the dream, Where everything is perfect And I have the situation’s control. Where there isn’t neither stereotypes nor prejudice, And the imaginary and illusory reality Is simple and clear. As a perfect spring day, In a perfect atmosphere. May realize the perfection and be infallibly happy. Run a lot. Run until my legs give up. Stop for a while to breath And let the air come light and warm into my lungs. And notice that I am alive. And be happy for that. To go that mountain down until the river, To drown and stay right there for hours, Not worrying about the air. See the fish, the trees, the flowers and the other animals See the Sun lying on its death-bed and Wake up really early to see it being born again Full of its own life Feel the rays of the sun cover my body Warming my fingers, frozen by the daybreak Look at the opened and radiant horizon As a smile And smile, maybe Because no one could be happier than me in that morning And after all of that, Dance the nature’s music Without the humane problems To twirl, jump and Fall down in ecstasy And feel the gods of the time whispering by my ears In a pleasant language As the most beautiful melodies To fain sleepy And wake up tired, dirty and sweaty In an ordinary bed Of a inhospitable room Look at myself at the mirror and have the sad conviction That everything was nothing but a dream And anyway, Notice on my clothes a foliage as a remembrance Of the most beautiful dream promoted by the soul And get shocked as realize that the real continues And that will keep passing Cool, interesting and curious things Morbid and brightly alive things Stupid, intriguing, irritating Embarrassing, rough and futile All of them pass in front of my eyes, Between the sunrise and the sunset, That I’ll never realize, Because the real world is cruel And the body is foolish My body is foolish In a melancholic contradiction with the soul That’s wonderful and intelligent And I prefer that it keeps going like this… So that I can fall asleep Dreaming about finding my friend sun again, In a perfect world In my perfect world In my dreams’ world « return. |