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February 26, 2005
[Reflexão filosófica I]
February 23, 2005
[farewell to you]
"I remember when I first saw you. Can't explain why, but there was something in you that caught my attention in that moment, though I'd never seen you before. This happens sometimes, during our every-day life... Usually, it's just a sudden pulse confusing us for no longer than a mere second... when we notice, it is already gone, as fast as it came..."
"Things were different with you. It lasted for more than a second. As a seed thrown to the soil that suddenly founds everything it needs to grow, the little seed you left in me without knowing created roots and started to grow. Each day it became a little bigger, a little stronger, a little more beautiful than before."
"The little seed grew and became a great tree. Then was when I realized what was going on. Then I understood what the seed you left inside me was. It was love. A pure love that overtook my whole being without warning. It didn't knocked on my door; it bursted through the room, invading my space and stayin' uninvited."
"It was a surprise for me. I didn't believe anymore that I could feel that way again. The last time was too much painful; it left so many wounds... wounds that time was not healing completely... but you did..."
"Love brings expectation. This is inevitable. As I am not an exception, I started to dream. I dreamed with you in my eyes. I dreamed with you in my arms..."
"But dreams are always wrong... They can never be true because we awake. I woke from my dream and saw the reality, a reality I didn't want to face, but that couldn't be avoided for much longer: though she left the seed in me, she didn't get one of my own seeds... No matter how much I loved you, you would never feel the same for me. You would never love me..."
"Took a while to wake from my dream. And when I did, I felt myself invaded by such a great pain, such a dark sorrow, such a deep woe... It was the greatest fall, the fall into a deep and suffocating darkness... a darkness where I still remain sunken..."
"What to do now? Shall I keep fighting for something utterly and totally impossible to reach? No. No longer. Neither shall I stay in darkness, though I am a fallen angel. A fallen angel that knows you are a dream too high, and still he loves you so much, so damn much... but no longer can I stay here. This is not my place. You will never be mine... Time has come for me to go away, time has come for me to rise..."
"So I say goodbye. I know this is a hard path to walk, but there are some things that must be done. Leave you with a tear in my eyes and a wound in my heart, a wound so deep, so painful... Leave you loving you more than I ever did before, and knowing in sorrow you won't miss me, because you never noticed I was there..."
"Farewell..."
February 21, 2005
[the choice is freedom or death]
[the choice is freedom or death]
February 16, 2005
[crossroads]
February 14, 2005
[burned by the sun, healed by the moon]
What matters everything else? The moonlight bursted through the dense storm, blessing with its pale radiance this long dead world... She healed my wounds and whispered in my hear that you'd come back... for me...
("wanna be my valentine..?")
February 11, 2005
[oblivious to everything but to you]
I don't know where did you come from. I don't know how did you find me here, in the very middle of nowhere, in this god-forsaken battlefield. Where I had been left to die alone, long ago. Where I lost my soul and turned to a shadow, doomed to dwell in the past, surrounded by darkness and sorrow. Where lay the bodies of my fallen army, scorched by the same radiant light I worshiped for so long.
This world fell long ago. I borne witness to the oblivion of it all. I saw wildfires burning greener prairies, eartquakes sundering snow-covered mountains, tidal waves shaking the boiling oceans, firestorms scorching the sky above my empty eyes. I died. Alone. This world became nothing but a wide and desolated wasteland.
Still you found me. I couldn't believe when I saw light making its way through the black storm clouds. When I saw you wandering alone in the once green shores where my army met the grim reaper. When you descended from heaven and entered this lost hell for me, just for me.
My hope was lost long ago. I still don't know if you and everything that happen were indeed real, or just another mirage, another dellusion. I still don't know if this I feel is true and pure as it seems. You were gone as you should be; I feel you with me, though I don't know if I will ever see you again. But I'd give anything - anything - to be given the opportunity to dream again... to feel your warm lips on my own... once more...
February 09, 2005
[fogo]
Relâmpago violento das nuvens cuspido com fulgor e violência que transforma a noite em dia num segundo evanescente que parece uma eternidade aos nossos olhos e que contra o solo explode com inaudita feracidade, explosão ardente da boca de algum vulcão adormecido que se lembra de acordar e fazer a terra tremer, seja com o seu bocejo sonolento ou com o seu mau humor ao despertar, nem sempre o fogo, este fogo que contemplo, incandescente, na ponta do cigarro que lentamente arde na solidão desta noite, deste terraço com vista para a cidade dormente a esta hora tardia, significa destruição, ou jamais teria Fénix renascido das cinzas em chamas fulgurantes e ascendido aos céus.
Não sendo necessariamente o fim, é igualmente, num paradoxo perfeito que nunca se anula, o início do acto de criação. A própria terra renasce, verde e viçosa, à passagem das chamas que no segundo anterior as despojam de toda a vida. Ilhas crescem ao sabor das erupções cujas lavas ardentes roubam espaço ao mar infinito. A mais violenta tempestade acalma-se, dispersa-se após libertar o inicial impulso furioso, e dá lugar ao dia brilhante que o Sol permite. E que é o Sol senão o astro da vida, a luz que permite a existência de tudo quanto se conhece neste mundo que à volta da sua esfera de fogo orbita inexoravelmente..?
Nada disto é real, talvez. Só o fogo, o eterno fogo que dentro e fora de mim arde, agora e sempre, o mesmo fogo que vejo desvanecer-se lentamente em fumo à medida que o cigarro se apaga, deixando-me envolto em escuridão e sonhos.
(última imagem de Boris Vallejo; as restantes, de autores desconhecidos)
Escrevi este texto no âmbito de um trabalho para a minha cadeira de português... escolhi a palavra fogo. Não pensei em ninguém no momento em que o escrevi; agora que o publico, dedico-o a quem primeiro o leu - Susaninha, grande amiga, companheira de longas conversas e de filosofias. Um grande beijo*
February 05, 2005
[Moment's Song 04: "Anywhere", Evanescence]
And dear my love, haven't you longed to be free?
I can't keep pretending that I don't even know you.
And at sweet night, you are my own...
Take my hand,
We're leaving here tonight...
There's no need to tell anyone,
They'd only hold us down
So by the morning light
We'll be half way to anywhere,
Where love is more than just your name...
I have dreamt of a place for you and I,
No one knows who we are there...
All I want is to give my life only to you...
I've dreamt so long I cannot dream anymore...
Let's run away, I'll take you there...
We're leaving here tonight...
There's no need to tell anyone,
They'd only hold us down...
So by the morning light,
We'll be half way to anywhere,
Where no one needs a reason...
Forget this life,
Come with me,
Don't look back, you're safe now...
Unlock your heart,
Drop your guard,
No one's left to stop you...
Forget this life,
Come with me,
Don't look back, you're safe now...
Unlock your heart,
Drop your guard,
No one's left to stop you now...
We're leaving here tonight...
There's no need to tell anyone,
They'd only hold us down...
So by the morning light,
We'll be half way to anywhere,
Where love is more than just your name...
February 02, 2005
[revenge is a bitterseet taste... like the own's blood...]
[revenge is a bittersweet taste... like the own's blood...]
Em circunstâncias normais ficaria contente. Verdadeiramente. Feliz, até. Teria pena de não poder assistir a tudo de um lugar privilegiado, de não poder ser o primeiro a atirar a primeira pedra quando o julgamento tivesse início, de não poder ver a tua expressão amarga pela derrota que te auto-infligiste. Seria o início do teu fim - e o fim do meu início. O apogeu da perfeição.
No entanto, não mais sou assim. Ou tento pelo menos não ser, que a lugar algum me levará. Que alegria me poderia proporcionar a tua queda quando eu próprio ainda não bati no fundo..? Que gozo me trariam as tuas lágrimas quando a fonte das minhas secou há tanto tempo que já esqueci a sensação? Nem sabor a vingança, frio ou quente, teria, que em nada interferi, nem teria interferido ainda que a oportunidade para tal me tivesse sido proporcionada por um qualquer deus malévolo. Todos os sentimentos subsequentes seriam insignificantes e ridiculamente mesquinhos. Não resta nada para sentir desse lado do espelho . . . .
February 01, 2005
[Moment's Song 03: "Sing for Absolution", Muse]
Há muito que não o fazia. Há muito que não me deixava envolver pela luz do entardecer e caminhava livremente pelas ruas da cidade, agitadas e inconstantes como é a sua natureza, envolto no meu próprio silêncio.
Caminho devagar, sem rumo definido, deixo-me invadir por nada e em nada me torno. Ainda estou em guerra, mas até a batalha acalma, dá-me uma trégua momentânea, deixa-me apaziguar o espírito, dissolver a mente na míriade de cores quentes do crepúsculo em ascensão, na brisa fria que embala a tarde, suave, sem pressa.
lips are turning blue
a kiss that can't renew
I only dream of you
my beautiful
tiptoe to your room
a starlight in the gloom
I only dream of you
and you never knew
sing for absolution
I will be singing
falling from your grace
there's nowhere left to hide
in no one to confide
the truth runs deep inside
and will never die
lips are turning blue
a kiss that can't renew
I only dream of you
my beautiful
sing for absolution
I will be singing
falling from your grace
sing for absolution
I will be singing
falling from your grace
our wrongs remain unrectified
and our souls won't be exhumed