FERNANDO PESSOA (1888 – 1935) – ENGLISH POEMS

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      imported_SueBitu68
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      D.T.
      The other day indeed,
      With my shoe, on the wall,
      I killed a centipede
      Which was not there at all.
      How can that be?
      It’s very simple, you see –
      Just the beginning of D. T.

      When the pink alligator
      And the tiger without a head
      Begin to take stature
      And demand to be fed,
      As I have no shoe
      Fit to kill those,
      I think I’ll start thinking:
      Should I stop drinking?

      But it really doesn’t matter…
      Am I thinner or fatter
      Because this is this?
      Would I be wiser or better
      If life were other than this is?

      No, nothing is right.
      Your love might
      Make me better than I
      Can be or can try.
      But we never know
      Darling, I don’t know
      If the sugar of your heart
      Would not turn out candy…
      So I let my heart smart
      And I drink brandy.

      Then the centipede come
      Without trouble.
      I can see them well.
      Or even double.
      I’ll see them home
      With my shoe,
      And, when they all go to hell,
      I’ll go too.

      Then, on a whole,
      I shall be happy indeed,
      Because, with a shoe
      Real and true,
      I shall kill the true centipede –
      My lost soul…

      MEANTIME
      Far away, far away,
      Far away from here…
      There is no worry after joy
      Or away from fear
      Far away from here.

      Her lips were not very red,
      Not her hair quite gold.
      Her hands played with rings.
      She did not let me hold
      Her hands playing with gold.

      She is something past,
      Far away from pain.
      Joy can touch her not, nor hope
      Enter her domain,
      Neither love in vain.

      Perhaps at some day beyond
      Shadows and light
      She will think of me and make
      All me a delight
      All away from sight.

      I AM THE ESCAPED ONE
      I am the escaped one,
      After I was born
      They locked me up inside me
      But I left.
      My soul seeks me,
      Through hills and valley,
      I hope my soul
      Never finds me.

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