sunrise

by Samara Silva (Brazil)

Making a local connection Brazil

Shares

The sun started getting down, my feet could know how felt the almost white and still warm sand of that place. The first beach that I ever met out of my living place seamed so different, even with them belonging in the same coast. Maybe it was the waves, way more loud and running like wild horses falling down far away from me, praying to the earth about the intensity of the ocean’s mind or the blue color of them that looked like the up high sky, the guardian of different stars and the mystery the conquered time that nobody could ever ask about it. So I started moving slowly and finally getting conscious that I was facing the edge of the continent, where the unknown beginning and even feeling a little cold because of the breeze that came with salting smell so I knew that there was no better time to be or place to want then that one by that moment. I was getting closer, and I started to listen another sound but the scream of the heavenly, deep intense amount of water, my heartbeat that was merging with that pulse like they were mean to be one and I could find another part of me, in the middle of the northeast coast. I was finally in the board, and the waves was showering my feet, connecting our souls in a way that I’ve never known. I closed my eyes and it was like I could be anywhere in the bright and wide world, anywhere that could handle my soul and the singing voices in my head, anywhere with the a wise wind that could played with my hair and clothes every single second, anywhere with the warm furious water that could take worries out but I was there and nothing could feel so right like this. Get deeper was so easy, the waves on my knees made me feel as free as a bird flying around, that was my sky to fly and my wigs to spread and all the noise that they made was music to my ears, like a special symphony made by the nature that you could only find in end of the ground, a non-control local that kept all the names wrote in your close friend sand by hopeful lovers, laughing friends and distant relatives that had to make sure that somewhere the people they loved were safe. Saved by the ocean waves that knew so badly that no one could take better care for all the feelings expressed, so they had to become their guardians and instantly made themselves mine too even that my wish was silent. I felt like a kid that first saw the immensity of it, and could never guess that there was a place like that in the whole universe, like a love that was so intense that seems the first one. I was just a girl with planets her mind that found in a place to be and to find just by breathing and holding so hard that feeling and with an only fear, forgetting this moment. There are so many places in the world and sometimes you have to run until you find a place to be and then run a little more to discover that there is so many pieces of you everywhere if you only open your eyes, to big bridges until small fields, places to be find and to be find, like a beach in the same coast that you thought you knew. The sun was getting down that’s right but felt like it was rising inside of me.