To Cross with You the World's Desert

 
      

     

To cross with you the world's desert

To face together the terror of death

To see the truth to lose fear

Alongside your steps I walked

For you I've left my realm my secret

My quick night my silence

My rounded pearl and its orient

My mirror my life my image

And abandoned the gardens of heaven

Here out to the light without veil of the hard day

Without the mirrors I've saw I was naked

Ant to the wasteland time was called

Because of this with your gestures you've dressed me

And I've learned to live in full wind

  
  
 
  

Sophia de Mello Breyner - Sixth Book - (1962)