Foto: Gilbert Williams ‘Valley of the Suns’ (1975). Imagem from Celestial Visitations – The Art of Gilbert Williams
What can
Four kings carry
Such care
Such respect
Four king carry a case
It’s weight does not
Bow them
Some would say
The case carries them.
The four kings who walk at the same pace.
Each has it’s crown
If you’d ask them
They would tell
“I have no kingdom
I have no subjects”
Why, some would find it odd
“I can’t possess nothing
Nothing can possess me
I am my Brothers and Sisters
I am this Case
This Case is within me
It is me”
And some will start
Slowly understanding them
Seeing them
Feeling them
Knowing they are
Brothers and sisters
Of them too
A part of the Case they carry.
They will want to call them
By their name
Who are you, mighty kings and queens
They will ask!
At one voice they will reply:
“Earth, Wind, Water, Fire
We protect Gaia
And Gaia protects us
We are one and the same
We are you
And you are us
I can’t possess nothing
Nothing can possess me.”
And so, through the ages
Four kings carry a case…
© Isa Lisboa
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