If a promise is a due, here I am to quit it !

*Manuela Vaz, our follower, send us the good English version of THE POEM OF MY HOPE by Sebastião da Gama.

She's the most kind, so I've promised her to publish, side by side, her version and my final illustration to this poem.

That was the way I had at my hand to say how thankful I am for her answer to my request.*

THANK YOU so much, Manuela!

Here's the new version & the last drawing:

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illustration by [PMSCBA], c. 1996

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POEM OF MY HOPE

[ by Sebastião da Gama - English version by Manuela Vaz ]

How nice to have the clock fast!...
Thus, knowing
there is always extra time,
one does not worry nor hurry.

My mockery smile.
Friends!,
When I see my watch
three quarters fast!...

Ticktock… Ticktock…
(It goes on thinking
I’m already at the close of my days.)

Ticktock…
(How I laugh to myself
about this funny thing:
while it believes there’s just the remains
I know that I have always morethree quarters of an hour to live.)