EARTH

By Pedro Du Bois (Balneário Camboriú, SC)

(Marina Du Bois, English version)

In me the light earth of childhood

remains under the feet

in wanderers

old and hot mischief

I find myself at the same place

always where the lights

come on and the bath waters

are warm and the fears

from the shaken start

in the need of leave and come back

                                         are quiet

I’m good enough for what I’ve done in life

and happy I return in songs

of lyrics arranged on the still

where I swing the body under the gaze

of the heroine who follows the gesture.