@tibianchini
1 year ago
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I've never seen the sea before
I looked at the images, printed in black and white.
Of wonderful pictures that came out in the news
Of the cultural notebooks that were in the newspapers.
Dad would tell me, with that frank smile,
Who has seen the sea in his travels,
That it was beautiful, and I'd never forgotten it.
And there I was, farm boy,
Dreaming of that lake that had no end:
Imagining it, green, blue, of no color;
Wishing to see you, always asking Ours
Lady, mother of God, give it to me
A chance to meet him, to play at his mist.
And they said their water was salty,
How to season the fish that lived therein;
And they said he was so deep, but so deep,
At the end of the water there was no mud or anything,
And the ships that were unscathed,
They sank, sank, to the other side of the world.
Ah! The sea! Oh, my God, how I wish
To be able to look at him on a hot sunny day,
With a suit and a float, and a bucket of sand!
And standing there, playing, all day,
And make castles, and run, and see people
And have the soul, happiness, full!...
Dad told me we had no money:
“ But one day, my son, you will grow up
And it's gonna be a joke, and it's gonna be really happy,
And you'll be able to travel the whole world,
And even the sea and the snow will know,
And you will live and own your nose!”
But I didn't want to wait to grow up, I just thought
To see the sea, to be able to feel the wind
Of such “sea breezes” in my hair;
And Dad, who always said he couldn't,
When I heard my request and my regret,
And I was suffering because I couldn't serve him.
It was life, you can't have everything.
The world turns, the earth is round,
And floats, looses, in the universe,
Just like the fish in the sea, and I, kid,
I could only imagine what the wave was like.
So well sung by poets, in proverse.
And so it was, in my absorbed dreams,
Until one day, Dad came home with his laughter open:
“ I have an important load to carry.
Back to São Paulo, and I'll drop her off at the port;
Pack your bags, be ready: if it works,
We all go to the beach, see the sea!”
That night, I didn't sleep.
The excitement: we were going to travel, me and my parents
In the truck ride, at dawn;
Finally, I would end my waiting:
I'd arrive by the pier in the morning.
My dream was there, down the road.
And then, God, I would be completely happy!...
But in the darkness of the highway, a light
In the opposite direction, he came to us in front:
I felt my body being thrown into the ceiling,
The truck topple, mama calling for Jesus
And in a bang, it all suddenly disappears.
I woke up, a little dizzy, in a bed
from hospital, with splints and serum, between sheets.
Everything hurt, from a pain that doesn't fade.
And looking around, and then looking at the mama,
I realized, with pain and fear, that between us,
One person was missing, and I asked, “Where is Dad?”
Mom, so you told me what happened...
There was another truck in the opposite direction.
And Dad made a determined move:
And had managed to change what would surely have been
The death of the three of us; and, lonely,
Only he quit this life.
I was dumb, stunned; I tried to be strong,
I tried to contain the pain in my boy chest
And understand how it's possible so cruel
Outcome; Father embraced death
To save us, and accepted his fate
And went diving in the seas from heaven...
And from my eyes I felt so much water sprout,
Salt water, flooding my wounded chest...
And make waves of sadness in my eyes,
And without being able to control my crying and sorrow,
Feeling life submerged, I thought to myself
That was the first time, anyway, I saw the sea..