One can hear the waltz night within

and us

useless

at all ghosts dance´s centre

fatuous and futile

ancestors

nothing discovering that we might clearly see

under the centuries' light that whirls

forever

the same waltz.

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

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