WHAT COLOR ARE MY EYES? (paródia em língua inglesa do poema do Imortal sergipano, José Amado Nascimento, Qual é a cor dos meus olhos?)

O, brave, wild seas!

O, green and wild seas!

Over them sea gull flies!

Answer me a question:

What color are my eyes?

Stars, hovels, rivers…

Give an end to my delirium

Give me an answer

To so intense torture

(It doesn’t matter if someone lies)

What color are my eyes?

I’m almost thirty

Will I be waiting till eighty?

Are my eyes green?

Are they like butterflies?

Then, what color are my eyes?

To everyone I make a question

Rich people, poor people

Clowns, dancers…

I also ask to skies:

What color are my eyes?

Here we get to an end.

Now, it’s easy to understand!

How happily I can say

So sweet and divine pray:

My eyes have the white of sand,

My eyes have the sadness of gray.

Em 2006