domingo, 5 de outubro de 2014
Wishes Of Darkness
Here, in the dark of the night, I meet myself;
Looking in the mirror, I see my own image reflected;
A shadow with darken borders, I close my eyes tight and I don't see my metamorphic figure anymore;
But only the shadow projected by the light, like a dark part of myself;
I realize that seeing it pleases and bothers me at the same time, through the howls between the walls of this cave of myself.
Freezing beyond my eyes, but warm and comfortable when I put this silver veil over my eyes, lost in the darkness.
There are no senses left, but feelings.
I want you closer, at the same time your nearness is so distant and there can't be nothing of touch, it is such an union of intelect, a sharing of virtues;
I don't want to be yours not even for a while because I know that you come to show me new horizons
Where selfishness doesn't fit, and our freedom may grow more and more, just like the necessity of spiritual regroup, takes away our desire everyday;
The words put in different sentences, seem to hit me inside and take me to confusion, when I want to deny myself, I know your struggle for denying or not, is the same.
I want to be a crystaline wave, burning light, blowing wind, a sweet melody beyond your ears and the cuddling fingers over your hair;
I don't want to be an exaggeration, but I want to be bold, pulsing;
But I don't want, never, allow myself to be yours, so there won't be any locks and walls.
I just want to be natural, free, released and true.
I want our moments together come but don't be eternity, but the reality found in a rock bottom.
I hope my wall to be strong enough for not letting you come in and discover the secret it guards;
My only wish, to be allowed only in the proper moment, we see each other in either side of this mirror frozen in time, so we can be free for flying together to the unknown.
For it all I don't want you, because I don't wish to be unique,
But the one you'll meet, but you shall never totally find...
sexta-feira, 18 de julho de 2014
Ginger
She was sobbing. And, as if the brightness of the day wasn't already enough, she was a redhead.
On the empty street, the stones were like ember at the heat- the head of the girl was like in flames. Sitting on the stairs of her home, she handled. There wasn't anybody in the street, only one random person waiting, uselessly, at the bus stop. As if her patient and submitted look didn't mean enough, the sobs interrupted her constantly, shaking her chin, which was resignedly supported on her hand. What can be made of a sobbing ginger girl? We looked at each other without words, dismay versus dismay. Not a signal of the bus in the desert street. In a land of “browns”, being a ginger was an unwilling riot. What does it matter if someday, her mark would raise an insolent woman's head? For now, she was sitting on those sparkling stairs, at 2pm. Her salvation at that point, was an old and broken bag strap. She held it with an almost marital love, tightening it against her knees.
Then suddenly appeared, her other half in this world, like a lost brother in Grajaú. The possibility of communication appeared from a warm angle of that corner, within an elderly lady, and embodied in the shape of a dog. It was a dachshund, precious and miserable, sweet over his own fatality. It was a ginger dachshund.
There he came, trotting, in front of his owner, dragging his own length. So unwarned, so accustomed, so dog.
The girl opened her eyes, amazed. Softly warned, the dog stopped after her. His tongue was pulsing. They both looked at each other.
Among so many beings that are ready to become owners of other creatures, there was that girl, who seemed to have come to this world just for owning that dog. He quivered mildly, without a bark. She looked at him from behind her fringe, fascinated, serious. How much time was elapsed with that moment? A big sob shook her, tunelessly. He not even moved. She got over her sobs and continued to stare him.
Both had short and red hair.
What have they told each other? Nobody knows. They had only a quick instant of communication, because there was no time for much more. Also, without a word, they asked for each other. They asked for each other with urgency, shyly, astonished.
In the middle of so much of so much vague possibility and so much sun, that dog was the redemption to the red kid. And in the middle of so many streets to be trotted, so many dry culverts- there was that girl, like she was flesh of his very own ginger flesh. They stared at each other deeply, given, absents of Grajaú. One more instant and this floating dream would be broken, yielding, perhaps, to the severity with which they craved for each other.
But they were both committed.
She was committed with her impossible childhood, the center of a naivety that would only go away when she became a woman. He, with his own imprisoned nature.
His owner waited impatiently, under an umbrella. The ginger dachshund finally went away of the girl, and left, like sleepwalking. She was scared with that happening on her hands, in a kind of muteness that neither her father nor her mother would ever understand. She accompanied his way with her two black eyes, which could barely believe, leaning over her bag and her knees, until the dog and his owner turned the next corner.
But he was stronger than her. Didn't look back, not even a single time.
Tobias Eccher
domingo, 27 de abril de 2014
Xenos...
"Brasil é um país acolhedor, aqui todo mundo é bem-vindo, não existe xenofobia! Isso é coisa do pessoal preconceituoso da Europa, EUA e Japão..."- Se você acredita nessas e em outras gilbertofreirices, veja essa situação: Estou lá na Agência do Trabalhador, com uma candidata a vaga de camareira, haitiana, daí ligo pra um conhecido hotel do bairro Mercês e digo: "... Aqui é da Agência do Trabalhador, eu tenho aqui uma candidata que preenche todos os requisitos que vocês pediram...", quando leio o nome da candidata, a responsável pela contratação me interrompe dizendo com voz patolínica: "Sentimos muito, mas nós estamos com uma política de não contratar estrangeiros... Obrigada!". Depois, vendo as muitas letras e poucas vogais do nome da contratadora, pensei: "É... Sua vovó que deve ter vindo lá da Polônia, provavelmente com uma mão na frente e outra atrás, e deve ter ouvido um monte de coisa parecida de muita gente quando chegou aqui, deve estar lá no céu morrendo de orgulho de você..."
segunda-feira, 3 de março de 2014
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