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21 " I Do Not Sing Because I DreamI do not sing because I dream.I simply sing because you’re real.I sing your ripened gaze,your purest smile,your animal grace.I sing because I am a man.And if I didn’t sing I’d bejust a brute, bursting with health, blinddrunk and dizzy with delightthere in your vineyard without wine.I sing because love wishes it.Because hay ripensin your arms, glistening wet.Because my body tightensfacing them, bare and bathed in sweat. "
I do not sing because I dream.I simply sing because you’re real.I sing your ripened gaze,your purest smile,your animal grace.I sing because I am a man.And if I didn’t sing I’d bejust a brute, bursting with health, blinddrunk and dizzy with delightthere in your vineyard without wine.I sing because love wishes it.Because hay ripensin your arms, glistening wet.Because my body tightensfacing them, bare and bathed in sweat.
― Eugénio de Andrade , Forbidden Words: Selected Poetry
