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Everything will become white when I die

Everything will become white when I die
It's a futile effort to spend time writing, but I live passionately this uselessness. Moreover, I don't know to do anything else, I can't do anything else. In this country of oblivion. Writing knowing in advance that there will be no possible ressurection from it. This is what remains to me: to be eternal in the passing second.

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Tudo se tornará branco quando eu morrer. É um esforço inútil gastar a vida a escrever, mas vivo apaixonadamente essa inutilidade. De resto, mais nada sei fazer, mais nada posso fazer. Neste país de esquecimento. Escrever sabendo de antemão que não haverá nisso qualquer possível ressurreição. Eis o que me resta: ser eterno no segundo que passa.

by AL BERTO (1948-1997), in "DIÁRIOS - 1985", Editora Assírio & Alvim, 2012

(English translated by Armando TABORDA, 2016)

Belleuse, goandgo, .t.a.o.n., beverley and 6 other people have particularly liked this photo


23 comments - The latest ones
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Je te remercie le fave, René Boes!
8 years ago.
 Malik Raoulda
Malik Raoulda club
Moi je pense qu'il y a toujours une issue possible.
Belle réalisation.
Bonne fin de semaine.
8 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to Malik Raoulda club
C'est une question de foi?

Merci, Malik! À toi aussi!
8 years ago.
 J.Garcia
J.Garcia club
AL BERTO!!

Obrigada, Armando
8 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to J.Garcia club
DE NADA!
8 years ago.
 Ulrich John
Ulrich John club
The words and the picture: Something to think about !
8 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to Ulrich John club
Thanks a lot, Ulrich!
8 years ago.
 cammino
cammino club
To write in order to live better!
8 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to cammino club
Well said, cammino! Thanks!
8 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Thanks for fave, Lorenzo Salmonson!
8 years ago.
 beverley
beverley
how about shades of grey !
8 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to beverley
...or even about black shadows!
8 years ago.
beverley has replied to Armando Taborda club
plenty of black sheep about at the moment ;-)))
8 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to beverley
maybe! :)
8 years ago.
 .t.a.o.n.
.t.a.o.n.
"to be eternal in the passing second"... YESSS !
8 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to .t.a.o.n.
...your eternity is already passed, Robert...YESSS!
8 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Thanks for fave, goandgo!
8 years ago.
 Belleuse
Belleuse
and WHITE is full of the colors INSIDE ;-)
8 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to Belleuse
...anyway, there will be no possible ressurection from the colours inside, dear Belleuse...

thanks for invitations, as well
8 years ago. Edited 8 years ago.
 beverley
beverley
ADMIRED in POEMS 4U
8 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to beverley
Thanks again, Bev!
8 years ago.
 Steve Bucknell
Steve Bucknell club
An eternity in every moment? That sounds very tiring, like counting grains of sand." If you can fill the unforgiving minute/ With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, " You'll be out of breath, my son.
8 years ago. Edited 8 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to Steve Bucknell club
Truth, Steve, eternity asphyxiates us! :)
8 years ago. Edited 8 years ago.

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