Ode to Gilinha

Ode to Gilinha

  Lo,Gilinha !

  Master of our History

  Do you exist or

  art thou a vision

  of what a master

  should be ?

  Lo, Gilinha !

  Do tell us the secret

  Of  thy humoured spirits

  Of  thy way of being

  Of  thy wit.

  Lo,Gilinha !

  Thou art History

  In the story

  Of our lives

  That you have turned

  Into a school fairy tale.

  Lo,Gilinha !

  In your voice we hear

  Sweet sounds of children

  Of  the sort we should

  Keep for life

  As golden treasures

  Of human essence .

  Lo,Gilinha !

  Keep on in laughter

 

  Fátima Pais- sometime in 2009