Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Maria Del Carmen Paiva


SADNESS
.
It is sufficient.
It has already fainted--
that accidental word
that usually sketches itself out in farewells,
and that you bring since who knows when;
or perhaps
it came close one day
and started the bad habit of nurturing it.
.
Time wears out things,
and although you keep on under those separate stars
and the sun, with its overflowing wings of sulphur,
and you keep on living in spite of all this
and what has already happened.
You deserve the name that life gives you
with its unforeseen and unknown impulse.

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