Woman Girl Poem by UMBELINA FROTA Linhares Pimenta Bastos

Girl, when you have known me, I put me in your hands,
These hands had taken me to discover everything
and took me to distant ways.

For your hands, I met affection, passion and love,
in your hands, I discovered the pride and the certainty when you said:
“ I will never forget you “.

Interlaced, our lover souls, our present hands,
Heating the tomorrow, and for a few seconds,
Forgetting it.

You became yourself a handsome man,
You freed my girl hands,
Assassinating my woman heart.

Translated by Nelson Francisco de Andrade