As Memórias Do Amanhã Longínquo

Christmas Eve

I came from work

I cooked the codfish

Two different ways,

I had refused two

Invitations

For that night

(I´m too dangerous

When I feel

Lonely)

And I was all by myself.

I ate the codfish,

I drunk wine,

A bottle

Of champagne

With chocolates,

While I listened

Christmas songs.

At 9 p.m.

I was drunk,

Numbed and strangely

Not sad,

Even thou it was

Christmas Eve

And I was about

5000 km from my family,

All alone.

I felt somehow

Light and far.

Next day I had

To wake up at 4 a.m.

Because I was needed

At work earlier:

It was Christmas.

At least, something

Was new

In that same old night.

B.