Aos setenta anos

by José Henrique Andrade Silva (Brazil)

I didn't expect to find Brazil

I was going to a job interview in my neighboring city, after not getting a job (a little disappointed with this situation) I went to the nearby park, there was a man sitting next to him, he asked me what my dream was, when he said he wanted to be a football player, he asked me another question right after, what was the possibility of this happening, I said that a real chance of 20%. so he asked what my gifts were, i said i was a writer (poet) right after that he asked if i could show some verses, so i showed some, then i showed the most important thing until the moment of that conversation (the verse "At 70 he said who feels like an empty person, while at 18 he thought it would fill up at 70 ") he then said that this verse was one of the most important that he heard, said that the pain he feels, the emptiness closest to his chest, told me not to stop writing these verses, because I changed his perspectives and that could change other people.