WATER

By Pedro Du Bois (Balneário Camboriú, SC)

(Marina Du Bois, English version)

  

Men line up at the bank’s door

women seek th water needed

for the daily works and the children

loose on the ground trace in air

playgames in the imagination

of the moment when they talk

abou dreams: plenty of water

in the immensity of the house lost

to the drought of dry

smiles in dried out souls

men believe

in promisses of big money

women thirsty in the daily walk

on seeking water and the children

oblivious to reality disguise

the hunger the thirsty and the longing

for what they will never have.