I Listen to Music

' Eu Ouço Música '

I listen to music like one gets caught in the rain:

resigned

and sad

for knowing the existence of a world

from the Other World...

I listen to music like one that is dead

and feels

already

a profound distress

of still being seen in this world over here...

Forgive,

maestri,

my weird sigh!

I listen to music like an ailing angel

that cannot fly.

- Mário Quintana