The Mistery Poem by UMBELINA FROTA Linhares Pimenta Bastos

You are a mistery which involve
And hallucinate me
I do not know If I want you
Or if you want me,
For to me, you are not life,
You are a martyrdom.

I look at the world
And see nothing.

And you, life,
Nothing has said to me,
I live because you are with me,
But I have been never with you.


O MISTÉRIO

Vida,
tu és mistério que me envolve
e alucina.
não sei se te quero
ou és tu que me queres, pois
para mim, não és vida, és um martírio.

Olho o mundo
e nada vejo.

E tu vida,
nada me dizes, como nunca me disseste...
vivo porque estás comigo,
mas nunca estive contigo.

Translated by Nelson Francisco de Andrade