Álbum: Sunset.
Dedicado a: Oriana's grandfather.
Dear diary,
Today, in my early morning, I got up and took one of those baths! I took so long to prepare myself that even my conscience kept my angel regarded. After all I knew what would come up next. If you remember, what I believe you do, seven years ago my grandfather, John Nash, was put into an elderly home. On that first page of my diary I wrote all the most incomprehensible and frustrated words whenever wrote by me in order to express the knife crossed into my heart.
I have always admired my grand. Each word he is capable to say makes my worries to vanish and give space to a deep reflection on his knowledge. The simplicity of his words contrast with the elaborated message he tries to transmit. His eyes never allowed him to rephrase a sentence. What you could not understand from what he said, was probably due to the lack of emphasis that his advanced age limited him, but once again, his eyes touched every other soul in a way that, what he wanted to say was not exposed to ignorance, but limited to be direct to our heart. When I arrived there, a farm in the middle of the nowhere, he stood in front of a tree in the direction of the lake. Deeply regretting all the missed years, and wondering if he would still remember me, I waited one hour before my approach. Before I could say anything he stroke: ‘I knew you would come.’ My emotions flew away and just both our souls remained there. He didn’t move, and yearning for looking at him I moved into his front. I sat at his feet waiting for forgiveness but it didn’t come out as I expected. We had just started talking when he asked me to keep silence. There was the sunset: ‘I knew one day he would come.’ He fell aside me and I only understood what had really happened when the tremendous white foam came out of his mouth.
I came back home, sat here and knowing all the good you’ve brought to me, I say a short goodbye saying that this is the last day I write, the day when the sun disappeared once again, but once for all.
João Santos.
Texto por: João dos Santos
Fotografia por: João dos Santos