I wake up
I remember your colors
A feeling of infinite
Like slowly falling leaves on a winter’s day…
They fly softly
They dance they rock me
And as soon as I manage to follow one’s flight
Another one catches my attention
Leaves that will never touch the ground-they travel
Each time in a different way
They are emotions of your memory that leave me breathless
They are indelible, everlasting…

I let the leaves fall
I don’t hold-after all, I can’t
My soul is five steps long…
When after some little noises upstairs
With a leap you were five steps from me, 5 steps
Five
And the distance covered was the length of my soul
My soul ended there
It knew where to go
With no doubts no hesitations
One way
The only way that could be traveled over

When I held you
Silence breaths symphony of deep whispers
Light and piercing
Some things don’t have any life to render an account to
And loyal gesture, any obligation and duty to fulfill
They take you by the hand
And you know you’re following yourself
You know you can’t be wrong…

I let the leaves fall
I don’t hold-after all I can’t…
My soul is five steps long…
I want to live five-steps long…
I want to live five-steps-long emotions
That breaks down on me like a wave
As if I were a shore to go back to
And then move away from five-steps, again and again…
The five steps that part us, they measure the precise length of my soul...
It is as long as its distance from you…
It ends where yours starts
And there it finishes

It completes itself.


Por Juliana Farias