Lake of One Wish While I was looking at... Evan do Carmo

Lake of One Wish

While I was looking at the evening
inside deep darkness
a thought flew away
As a shooting star
and like a burning bolt
lit my whole past –
forgotten and tenebrousI saw myself in another world
in another time
where everything used to look pleasurable
There was a serene lake
and in the riverside
a couple of lovers
was cuddling innocentlyMany people had come to that lake
To see the growing childhood
Then the couples became old
and the joy were lost bit by bitLake of hope, my refuge
and I always come back to see it again
Timeless. This memory
is part of me, of my desire
But not of my existence