Sophia de Mello Breyner ( ) Portugal

Transparency

O Lord, free us from
the dangerous game of transparency,
in the sea-floor of our souls
there are no corals or shells of the sea,
only a suffocated dream,
and we do not know well
what things are there in the dreams.
Silent messengers of faint songs
which one day suddenly emerge
in the grand, flat patio of disasters.