Tuesday, 5 April 2005

Explaining Portuguese longing – Saudade

A boat skims past yet another breaker


Departed from any land


Looking back at what is left on the sand


 


It was a long strand and now but a grain


On the horizon a speck


By force of these oars of frustration left


 


The sail is longing for surf and for salt


The ropes in strenuous pain


The boat rises and falls in never a halt


 


A continent of farewells a bitter smile


Encapsulated in one heart


A new world to be unveiled in a while


 


Wave after wave a vague so long


Wave after wave hand


Wave after wave and never arrive