Saturday, August 23, 2008

Ingenuidade/Naive

Foi aí pelos doze anos,
E era Verão: durante alguns dias
Cometeu a imprudência
De pensar que o Mundo
Poderia ser perfeito.

He was about twelve years old,
And it was summer: for a while
He was naïf enough
To think that the World
Could be perfect.

David Mourão-Ferreira