This Once

Translated by: Sofia Perestrelo

This once,

I erased myself.

I isolated myself.

I wished to be lonely;

alone.

I wished to see none,

hear none, to be there;

to be beyond.

I wished to think only of me;

to think of you; 

think on the past;

look to the future.

This once, 

I was absent,

I was silent.

I did not wish to speak, 

laugh, sleep or

cry.

I went to write; 

I wrote.