I infuse the herbs in the boiling water While Chopin caresses my skin Anna besides me, mourn for her prison altar In a frozen and beautiful cage, full of sins
I see mine far in the middle of my tropical land Completely surrounded by misunderstand How dare they hold the most beautiful birds In a cage that floats in the sea of nonsense?
Anna in this poem is Anna AkhmΓ‘tova, who wrote a lot about the StΓ‘lin era in Soviet Union. I live in Brazil, and we had a military dictatorship for some time. Now, unfortunately, I see the possibility of this happening again.