Benjamin Button: the last moments... Francisco Vaz Brasil

Benjamin Button: the last moments...

Francisco Vaz Brasil

These are my last days

I am fighting against time

I’m living regressive moments

And I am in my ending hours

Nowadays my days are monotonous

I’m repeating the kindergarten for three times

And I feel fear from other children

And I don’t understand nothing from school

Nana shows me the elephant

-the gray monster –

Elyphant! Elyphant! Elyphant!

I am jumping over the bed

I take the cane and I call my soldiers

And I say: fight! Fight! Fight!

Again and again. Ever and forever,

I round the chairs hitting them and tables

- Let’s go soldiers: Fight! Fight!

Until the Victory!

Old and young ladies want to kiss me

But I have no time – it’s  late!

The watch of my life

Works in retroactive movements

It’s late. It’s just five. I need to sleep...

Nana shows me the great orange

- the enormous Sun!

The man who was here went away...

And my eyes are sleepy...

I don’t have dreams, only remembrances

I’m leaving for other dimension

And I can see my soldiers

In San Juan Hill.

Let’s go men!

Fight! Fight! Fight!

Now I’m seeing my unforgetable Hildegard

- I always will love you my Hildegard,

ever, forever and whatever!

And now I’m passing by the old Button’s house

On Monroe Street...

I am seeing my grandfather:

He seems me a shadow in my eyes...

Nana touches softly my face

I don’t know if the milk

is warm or cool

I am no hungry...

I only feel the smell of the milk

Like blossoms in the field...

I am in regressive time

My heart touches fast and strong

like a heart of a child

Time is over

I hear some echoes of my mind

Clank! Clank!  Shhhhh .....