Poética I e Poética II
Vinicius de Moraes
Poetic I and Poetic II
Poetic I
In the morning I darken
During the day I delay
In the afternoon I turn into night
At night I burn.
To the west is death
Against whom I live
Captive to the south
The east is my north.
Others who count
Step by step:
I die yesterday
I am born tomorrow
I walk where there is space:
- My time is whenever.
Poetic II
With the tears of time
And the lime of my day
I made the cement
Of my poetry.
And in the perspective
Of future life
I raised in living flesh
Its architecture.
I'm not sure if it's a house
If it's a tower or if it's a temple:
(A temple without God.)
But it's big and clear
It belongs to its time
- Enter, my brothers!