Sonnet 6 When Do I Smile? Poem by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares

If any of my dreams can reach a land
Or many of them are worth some glances
While my closeness to this world advances
And I see rainbows by an ocean's strand.

If I mix sorrows with castles of sand
And Swim through the blue to find romances
Or nurse my soul with a fire that dances
As my countenance blooms to kiss a hand.

When it is so far that cold is painless
But I feel so much that life is endless
And thorns instead of hurting just beguile...
If deep in my mind there is not concern
For I see jungles of the oldest fern
That I do know that in my life I smile.
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