VANITY – 19 April 2006

 

Often you asked me -- "Am I the muse?

"Do I inspire you, as others had?

"I wished your heart for me bled

"And that your verses could not confuse

 

"My messy mind -- that believe I could

"You wrote them for me, no for another,

"That it's love indeed, not a bother

"That I mistrust and set aside should..."

 

How many proofs do you need yet?

How many occasions of ours I set,

To show the source for those poems’ seed...

 

Forlorn hope of latter days' conquest...

Agreed you're not my first muse indeed,

Though I'm sure that you shall be the last!...

THE MODEL IN THE ILLUSTRATION 

WAS IDENTIFIED AS APARECIDA MUNHOZ