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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

SAUDAÇÃO [b]

Heia? Heia o quê e porquê?
O que tiro eu de heia! ou de qualquer coisa,
Que valha pensar em heia!?
Decadentes, meu velho, decadentes é que nós somos...
No fundo de cada um de nós há uma Bizâncio a arder,
E nem sinto as chamas e nem sinto Bizâncio
Mas o Império finda nas nossas veias aguadas
E a Poesia foi a da nossa incompetência para agir...
Tu, cantador de profissões enérgicas, Tu o Poeta do Extremo, do Porto,
Tu, músculo da inspiração, com musas masculinas por destaque,
Tu, afinal, inocente em viva histeria,
Afinal apenas “acariciador da vida”,
Mole ocioso, paneleiro pelo menos na intenção,
— Bem... isso era contigo — mas onde é que aí está a Vida?

Eu, engenheiro como profissão, Farto de tudo e de todos,
Eu, exageradamente supérfluo, guerreando as coisas
Eu, inútil, gasto, improfícuo, pretensioso e amoral,
Bóia das minhas sensações desgarradas pelo temporal,
Âncora do meu navio já quebrada pr'ó fundo
Eu feito cantor da Vida e da Força — acreditas?
Eu, como tu, enérgico, salutar, nos versos —
E afinal sincero como tu, ardendo em ter toda a Europa no cérebro,
No cérebro explosivo e sem diques,
Na inteligência mestra e dinâmica,
Na sensualidade carimbo, projector, marca, cheque
P’ra que diabo vivemos, e fazemos versos?
Raios partam a mandriice que nos faz poetas,
A degenerescência que nos engana artistas,
O tédio fundamental que nos pretende enérgicos e modernos,
Quando o que queremos é distrair-nos, dar-nos ideia da vida
Porque nada fazemos e nada somos, a vida corre-nos lenta nas veias.
Vejamos ao menos, Walt, as coisas bem pela verdade...
Bebamos isto como um remédio amargo
E concordemos em mandar à merda o mundo e a vida
Sem quebranto no olhar, e não por desprezo ou aversão

Isto, afinal é saudar-te?
Seja o que for, é saudar-te,
Seja o que valha, é amar-te,
Seja o que calhe, é concordar contigo...
Seja o que for é isto. E tu compreendes, tu gostas,
Tu, a chorar no meu ombro, concordas, meu velho, comigo —
(Quando parte o último comboio? —
Vilegiatura em Deus...)
Vamos, confiadamente, vamos...
Isto tudo deve ter um outro sentido
Melhor que viver e ter tudo...
Deve haver um ponto da consciência
Em que a paisagem se transforme
E comece a interessar-nos, a acudir-nos, a sacudir-nos...
Em que comece ti haver fresco na alma
E sol e campo nos sentidos despertos [...]
Seja onde for a Estação, lá nos encontraremos...
Espera-me à porta, Walt; lá estarei...
Lá estarei sem o universo, sem a vida, sem eu-próprio, sem nada...
E relembraremos, a sós, silenciosos, com a nossa dor
O grande absurdo do mundo, a dura inépcia das coisas
E sentirei, o mistério sentirei tão longe, tão longe, tão longe,
Tão absoluta e abstractamente longe,
Definitivamente longe.
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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

A WINTER DAY

I

'Tis a void winter day, sad as a moan.
A sense of loneliness, as of a stone
Upon a grave, or of a rock in sea
Rests like a mighty shadow over me.
I am unnerved, unminded by the pall
Of solemn clouds that, weighty over all,
Curtail the vision; and upon mine ear

The City's rumble brings despair and fear
To crush my spirit free and wild.
        The rain,
Reiterated horribly, again
Beast with its drops at my cold window‑pane
With such a sound as makes us know it cold.
The world is ghostly, undaylike and old,
And weary passengers, with cautious tread,
Yet hurried, walk within the streets soul‑dead
In the unkindness of their hue of lead.

The streets are streamlets, and perpetual
A sound of little waters, on roof, on wall,
Down in the streets, in pipes, in window‑glass
And into rooms doth wetly come and pass.
        All is the rain's.
All is pale wetness, darkness inly cold,
A sentiment of waste things and of old
Making all things exterior sorrows, pains;
And all we hear and feel and know and see
Is wrapt around as with a masking cloak
In inconceivable monotony.

All in the houses and up from the street
Is a long watery shuffle of heavy feet,
A sound of drenched garments, and a sense
Of a sad chillness, latently intense.
Through cracks in doors and windows a gust cold
Of wind penetrates like a memory of old
Times to make freeze my body, ill reclined
Upon a couch, a sufferer with my mind.

Life in the streets is sad, a monotone
More dull than usual ordinariness:
Business and work have lost their usual stress,
The vender's cries are each of them a moan
Grotesque, desolate, as forlorn and half‑dead
Hearts might produce which make a war (?) attempt
At talking normally, as if they not bled.
Half‑childish urchins, gloriously unkempt
Laugh at the water that cart‑wheels upshed.

The muddy urchins in the streets that play
Make shades of envy in my soul to stay.
Couples, some newly‑married, others not,
Who in the commonness of their no‑thought

Have a deep happiness I would not have,
A joy to which I would prefer the grave,
Pass in the street. some gay and some sedate.
I feel me no like men in any way.
I envy those - I speak true - without hate
And without admiration, isolate (?).
I would that l were happy as they are
But not with that their happiness. Thus far
Such living as theirs is were unto me
Misery, penury, monotony.

Alas for all who dream! Alas for us,
Poor poets, more or less mad, more or less
Foolish! In this consists true happiness!
In knowing how to be monotonous.
Happy are they who can see without sorrow
        To‑day yield us to‑morrow
And yet to‑morrow and to‑day to them
Different days because different days,
Which are to me (save that they pass) the same.

II

The view I have of this cold winter day,
The deep depression that makes my thoughts stray
Is but a symbol and a synthesis
Of what my life perpetually is.

How deep my thoughts in pain and sadness are!
How wreck'd my soul in its intense despair!
How desolate, disconsolately mute
My heart is of the words that like scents shoot
From the full flower of true youthfulness!
How locked am I within my own distress!
How in the tragic circle soul‑confined
        Of my abhorred self!
Not one ambition leads me - power nor pelf,
No wish for fame, no love of poor mankind.
But I am weary, desolate and cold
E'vn as this winter day. I have grown old
In watching dreams go by and pass away
        Leaving a memory pure and bright
        Of aught that was and died as light
Without the living horror of decay.

Is this thy life, irresolute soul of mine?
How pale the sun of thy sad morn doth shine!
How it forebodes the cloudiness that comes
Outstretched wings of the storm whose muffled drums
Of warning in the paling day are heard
Deep in the distance lesseningly blurred.

Thou look'st not death nor evil in the face
Poor soul despairing in life's troubled race!
All forms of life, all things have been to thee
Mutations of eternal misery.
All years, all homes to thee have been
In the same drama many a change of scene.
Thou hast not learned to live, but thou dost cling
Madly to life (dreading Death's night severe),
As if life or the world were anything!
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