Mensajes

I walk daily along a stretch of coast
of white sand, sun, and salt
that eternally beats night and day
the waves of the sea.
I came here by accident
to face existence and chance
that the castaway carries his desires
and the storm.
My walks have become the purpose
of every morning I go out to seek
in the distance the sail of a ship
that will come someday.
I named it 'the Island of Forgetfulness'
and among other things, I started collecting
the variety of bottle shapes
that the sea abandons.
And so, finding a long time ago
in one of them, I found this sign:
'I keep waiting for you every sunset
in the same place'.
The note had no signature or date
nor did it mark a place
and I imagined that I found in the world
another castaway.
'Without time and signature and from nowhere
I go out to look for you',
the message said in the same bottle
that I returned to the sea.
So my life on the Island of Forgetfulness
where the waves of the sea sing
abandoning driftwood without time
and dreams without a home.
Of white sand in the starry night
of luminous mornings with nothing else
but to walk leaving my footprints in the sand
that the sea will erase.
Always waiting for the wing of a sail
that would invite me to its journey
to find the remains of those
who have not returned to sail.
It continues here only that some time ago
strangely I started to find
messages from other shipwrecks that have seen
a sail on the sea.
And just like them, they arrive at my beach
every twilight I return to launch
a messenger naming a desire
that takes time to arrive.
Along with some words of encouragement
that I write to whoever could find them
in the message that in this bottle
we entrust to the sea.