To Fernando Pessoa

I felt happy because I couldn’t feel unhappy.

Your lips curled a vivid grin of life

Between the crooked teeth of loss.

As I read you, time was running out for us

In snippets of promised smoke up a pole.

I triumphed and faltered at every page

And wrote me less in more leaves of ink,

Until we came to keep on nodding terms

With each other, because love speaks in runes

And we were out of linguistic whispers.

 

Reviews

[RonE317]

What a beautiful homage! I was turned on to "The Tobacco Shop" 20 years ago and still have not found a piece as honest or touching. Pessoa, for me, is one of the Greats!

"I'm nothing.
I'll always be nothing.
I can't want to be something.
But I have in me all the dreams of the world."
The Tobacco Shop -Fernando Pessoa

[Witty Fay]

Thank you for reading. Indeed, to me, as well, he is among the greatest. Thanks for sharing!