Dark horse

 Dark horse  

 

América, stat of Arkansas  

 

                     I 

 

I'm a horse that got kicked 

In the head by a female horse my princess and 

Got expelled from the harem by a stallion 

I'm ashamed so I only travel by night. 

 

                      II 

 

But I heard that on the outskirts of town 

There is an African tree that has an alcoholic fruit 

I'm going there to bottle myself up 

But I only travel at night because  

And I don't want to be mugged 

 

                     III 

 

I loved my princess but she changed me 

For someone else it fill like I was 

Hit in the heart buy a truck,  

I think my soul is broken 

 

                 IV 

I had to leave the field and go 

Towards the city but only at night... 

I followed the path that took me 

To the outskirts of town. 

  

                 V  

 

On the way to the town 

I heard someone calling my name 

I thought she was my princess 

But after all it was only the wind 

hitting the trees. 

 

             VI 

     

The path was crooked 

I was hoping not to find 

No coyotes they are dangerous above all 

if you they are in a group. 

 

               VII 

 

In the middle of the trip 

My four legs 

Were already tired 

But I had to keep on feeding on what I found on the way. 

 
  

                       VIII                                                     

when i saw the city lights 

I spent some time admiring the lights 

that are very beautiful 

The houses in the streets if they could talk had a lot to tell 

 

                       IX 

 

I also saw hundreds of people 

Walking on the promenade 

Each person has a story to tell...  

Their...one and private story.  

 

                              X 

I took a deep breath And I started walking down a path And then after walking four miles I entered a terrain, it was enough to jump the 

Fence where there were the alcoholic fruits. 

 
 

                                         XI 

 
 

The fruits smelled good 

And they still taste better 

I thought of my princess who abandoned me 

I shook my head to get rid of those thoughts and started 

eating the fruits. 

 
 

                         XII 

 

I felt my head half sleepy 

But at the same time 

I forgot the thoughts that tormented me 

I ate a lot of fruits. 

 

                        XIII

 

Meanwhile I saw a stable in the yard 

And I decided to enter it to hide 

and get some sleep 

My head felt heavy and my body numb. 

 

               XIV 

 

I fell asleep and woke up in the morning to the voices 

Of the people on the road I was scared 

'Cause I thought it could be 

Uncovered... 

 
                           XV 

                                                 

The day went by fast 

The night filled the space with 

Is long dark arms 

I decided to walk around the city a bit. 

  

     XVI 

                                                      

Sometimes I like to think 

while walking 

It's in my nature 

Thoughts are born almost unintentionally  

 

                       XVII  

                                                     

the night was very hot 

It feels like the world is heating up 

But it can't heat up much more 

Cause we can't live a good life if the temperature rises too much 

 
                 XVIII           

                 

Humans have to unite 

And solve the problem of climate change 

they don't like to live 

In this world? there is no planet B 

 
     XIX  

                                                                                                                

I walked and I walked 

I heard gunshots... why do humans 

They kill so much in the U.S.A. 

Why don't they talk and come to terms instead of killing each other 

that's not very smart 

 

    XX 
                                                                  

we are here in this world 

to love each other 

And not to kill each other 

We need more love in the world and not guns. 

 
      XXI

                                                                  

I was getting tired 

So I decided to go back to the stable 

And ate some more of those alcoholic fruits 

I was feeling happy and fulfilled. 

 

                   XXII

Then I went to the stable to sleep 

That night I didn't sleep much. 

thinking about my princess 

I felt abandoned, rejected, alone. 

 
                          

                     XXIII 

 

Couldn't get rid of these thoughts 

For that reason I decided to eat more fruits 

And then I felt like going for a walk 

The drinking was doing more harm than good. 

 

                                                                            

  XXIV  

 

I walked and I was feeling dizzy 

I almost fainted, that's when I started to walk away 

from the city to the countryside 

It was then that I fell 

 
       

                      XXV                                              

 

And there it was to my surprise 

That I heard a car approaching 

I couldn't move I was going to get run over 

I didn't care since I was without my love 

 
 

    

                       XXVI                                          

 
 

the car stopped 

Two men got out of the car 

And they began to talk among themselves. 

I Couldn't get up without help. 

 

    XXVII 

                                                                                                           

«what is this?» 

«It's a horse.» 

«Is he dead?» 

«You know what they say a horse on the ground is a dead horse» 

 

 

                      XXVIII                                      

 

I didn't know those people 

I had to trust them 

But the way they talked 

They looked like good people 

 

                       XXIX

 

«Is alive» 

«Let's help him to get up» 

«Do you think he has a name» 

«No, but we can call it "dark horse" since we find it in the dark.» 

 
 

                      XXX                                                          

 

Little by little I realized that I could walk 

For that reason I decided to return to my land 

The alcoholic fruit was making me sick 

I had to solve my affairs in another way 

 
    XXXI 

                                                                           

«I was watching the way the horse rocks» 

«Looks drunk» 

«A drunk horse I have never heard of» 

«Unless he ate that alcoholic fruit that guy planted on that farm outside town.» 

 
 

                     XXXII                                                      

 
 

«yes maybe he did» 

«Have to called him, the "drunk horse"» 

«And not dark horse» 

«Yea» 

 
 

                              XXXIII 
                  

 

No one likes to be called drunk 

Not in a million years 

But they couldn't know 

That I was suffering inside. 

 
 

 
 

                        XXIV 

 
 

I preferred the first name 

Dark horse if there were two names that defined 

What was I feeling that feeling of rejection 

Emptiness and loneliness those names would be...dark horse. 

 

      XXV 

 

when I was arriving at the place in the countryside where I lived 

I remembered that I should look for a new love 

But always hoping that my princess 

Tell me somethink - if anything else I'd have to go on my way and not look back... we can never look back. 

 

                      XXVI                 

  

Life is funny                                                            

A man's dream 

Can very well be another's nightmare 

We have to live with it. 

 
 

                     XXVII  

 

I Saw the spot where I lost the fight to the stallion 

And my legs almost went down 

I couldn't bear it 

For that reason I decided to leave there and start a family in a new place. 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Nota - The marula (Sclerocarya birrea) is a fruit tree from Africa that produces alcoholic fruits. 

 
 

 
 

P.S - Ainda não acabei tenho de rever