MEMORY

By Pedro Du Bois (Balenário Camboriú, SC)

(Marina Du Bois, English version)

Memory incorporates

time: makes

the present light

heavy

in what we repeat

as error

in what we learn wrong

memory is rest and tormentor

from which we can not escape

or change the stories

passed by our grandparents

we cling to it by fantasizing

the colors they didn’t have.