Today I am perplexed from images

my eyes catch

all obscured mass of surrounding light

at the ignited core of my mind

where

I don't know why


all my friends other beings and environments reveal

no usefulness

due to the indifference I feel on me.



(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the picture)

by Armando TABORDA, in "Sinfonia em Dor Menor", Edição Escola de Mar, 2007

www.ipernity.com/blog/armando.taborda/28321

(post 1st edition, 2017; 2nd edition, 2023)