Drums are beaten far away

I don't know who is being executed

I imagine myself a sailor without navigated sea

hidden in the Jerónimos' crypt

cowardly pasted to the stone's columns as they were land to discover

deserter in time to sail away

not departing criminal.

(to read the original Portuguese version please click on the figure)

www.ipernity.com/blog/armando.taborda/98691

by Armando TABORDA, in "SINFONIA EM DOR MENOR", Edição Escola de Mar, 2007

(post 1st edition, 2008; 2nd edition, 2020; 3rd edition, 2022)