16 Abril 2012

XXXI

If I sometimes say flowers smile
And if I say rivers sing,
It’s not because I believe there are smiles in flowers
And songs in the running of rivers...
It’s because that way I make false men feel more
The truly real existence of flowers and rivers.

Because I write for those who read me sometimes I sacrifice myself
To their stupidity of meanings...
I don’t agree with myself but I forgive myself,
Because only I am this important thing, an interpreter of Nature,
Because people don’t understand her language,
Because it’s not a language at all.

Alberto Caeiro