The child looks upwards
At the blue sky abover.
He lifts his tiny hand
And longs to touch the sky
Unable to percieve
That the sky is an illusion:
The child thinks that he cannot reach it
when he holds it in his hand.
Manuel Bandeira
This is a poem about innocence. A child attempts to reach the sky but because he doesn't realize that the sky is an illusion, he think he has failed. In reality, he is holding the sky within his hand.