Four Poems by Narlan Teixeira |
by Narlan Teixeira |
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eyes eyes eyes
Me Besides mine I've got eyes That see what I cannot avoid Besides mine I've got desires That desire things That I don't like To desire
My mouth, for example Wants your breasts
Besides mine I've got hands That want Anyway To touch the infinite Bees I feel insects flying in me The noise of their wings Feeding themselves on air
I feel the dull sound (Heavy as the engine of a ship) of a cloud of insects That inhabits me
Sometimes I ask myself If I really am a human being
The Jungle the jungle in me is merciless
I am tied as if in a primitive ritual
I cannot move myself
Each leaf a letter
Each tree a word
There are no ways
Where I can pass by
Everything is a mass of everything
Pre-historical birds pass by
Nameless birds pass by
Birdless birds pass by
The jungle in me is endless
The prophecy Behind these insane prophets
the roman columns
these stone bridges
the world's words
so many buildings
these train stations
the philosophy
the steps of history
the faces of men
so many gospels
so many holy books
so many marginal ones
the starvation in the world
an inkless pen
every opium every tree
these bugs spiders
those protest songs
rock in roll spirit
every broken record
every child crying
every refugee camp
every lost dream
centuries of mistakes
every blind man
the quantum theory
every lie
Behind everything
There's a truth that we need desperately to see
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