TIME

My time is not my weather
But my weather has time
Tides and seasons
My time is something else
Does not live in states of mind
Doesn’t suffer
Divisions
Discord, indecisions
Illusions, delusions
My time has neither wars nor storms
Natural disasters foreign bodies falling from Earth
My time is rather a quiet walk
It runs its course, infinite, until it ends
And who says course
Says discourse
My time, yes, my time
All laws follows by
Gravity
Exact rule
Discipline
My time, yes, my time
A time with time
Has to be time
It’s time.

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Pedro Góis Nogueira

Poems, short stories, essays and aphorisms | Lisbon, Portugal, 1974