Ecos do Éter

                                                                                                                                                                                                        I sailed toward you
                         You were a rock, an islet worn down by erosion,
                              the harbor where you could dock was elusive
                   Rocky and unstable in my desire to be a sheltered harbor

                               I saw you from afar, yet without distance;
                               for where I am, there is a mountain;
                               and now walls, leaves, words;
                       but what a vast memory and a glimpse of a dream
                                in which I reach our “forever”

                                                     I saw you on this side, where such immense strength
                                                      contrasted
                                                                              with the tyranny of narrow minds
                                                      who chained up
the primacy of the eternal

                                  I am fascinated by the distance,
                      that dazzling closeness we call "inside"
                        that immense and resplendent thing we call «center»
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        This moment and this place that are nothing! Nothing!

                                   I found myself face to face with life
                                              I observed it
as one observes a marvelous work of art
I took a few steps back to understand it better
I moved a little farther away to see more of its details
I also stepped outside of myself:
only eyes slightly narrowed allow one to see clearly

                   I became all those who came before me in the stream to reach you;
                              I reached you in an instant by remembering:
                              we are These limits we impose on ourselves!