2011

Ode para o Futuro

Falareis de nós como de um sonho.
...Crepúsculo dourado. Frases calmas.
Gestos vagarosos. Música suave.
Pensamento arguto. Subtis sorrisos.
Paisagens deslizando na distância.
Éramos livres. Falávamos, sabíamos,
e amávamos serena e docemente.

Uma angústia delida, melancólica,
sobre ela sonhareis.

E as tempestades, as desordens, gritos,
violência, escárnio, confusão odienta,
primaveras morrendo ignoradas
nas encostas vizinhas, as prisões,
as mortes, o amor vendido,
as lágrimas e as lutas,
o desespero da vida que nos roubam
- apenas uma angústia melancólica,
sobre a qual sonhareis a idade de oiro.

E, em segredo, saudosos, enlevados,
falareis de nós - de nós! - como de um sonho.

Jorge de Sena, in 'Pedra Filosofal'

Let's get lost..

.. lost in each others arms
Let's tell the world we're in that crazy mood.
Let's defrost in a romantic mist
Let's get crossed off everybody's list
To celebrate this night we found each other, mmm

"Tenho tanto sentimento"

"Temos, todos que vivemos,
Uma vida que é vivida
E outra vida que é pensada,
E a única vida que temos
É essa que é dividida
Entre a verdadeira e a errada."

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; 

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on"; 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Rudyard Kipling