A palmeira | The palm tree

Esta palmeira viu estas duas mulheres crescer. À sua sombra, ainda bebés dormiram grandes sestas e comeram os primeiros punhados de areia. Sob as suas folhas deram os primeiros passos apoiadas uma na outra e as primeiras palavras que proferiram confundiram-se com o restolhar das suas folhas sob a brisa do deserto.

As primeiras conversas de adolescentes tiveram-nas ali sentadas e encostadas no seu tronco. Ali choraram, riram e zangaram-se uma e outra vez, para rapidamente fazerem as pazes de novo. Inseparáveis desde miúdas e as melhores amigas já mulheres.

Sob esta palmeira sentem-se em casa e enquanto aqui estão ninguém as importuna. Filhos, maridos, pais e mães, todos sabem que ali é o seu refúgio e aquele tempo é só delas.

This palm tree have seen these two babies grow up. As babies, they slept the best naps by it's shadow and ate some hand fulls of sand. Under it's leaves, they stood up for the first time, gave their first steps leanning on each other and their first words mixed up with the noise of the leaves moving with the desert breeze.

First teenager talks and dreams were shared, while sitting agains it's trunk. Right there they criyed, laughed and get angry at each other again and again. Soon they were friends again. Inseperable since little kids, adult best friends.

Under this palm tree they feel at home, safe, and while they are here, no one upst them. Theis children, husbands, mothers and fathers, all know that the palm tree is their refuge, and that time his their, and their only.