UNMARKED DEADLINE
Abismo Cavado e Medicado
Yesterday he was fine, telling jokes
Today his body stopped mid-sentence
No one signs a contract with time
Life doesn't ask permission when it invades
A stroke, a heart attack, a test
A road, a second, a slip
We live pretending we have a deadline
But the deadline was never agreed upon
There is no marked date
For when everything changes
Life doesn't announce the arrival
Of the hour when everything fades away
How many I'll call later did I say
How many next year we'll go
Meanwhile, time doesn't ask permission
It simply goes, goes, goes
A stroke, a heart attack, a test
A road, a second, a slip
We live pretending we have a deadline
But the deadline was never agreed upon
There is no marked date
For when everything changes
Life doesn't announce the arrival
Of the hour when everything fades away
If today were the last day
What have I not yet said?
Who have I not yet hugged?
What fear still holds me?
There is no marked date
So I won't wait
I'll say now what I feel
I'll live before I run out of air
Unmarked deadline
Unrehearsed life
Live now