Song of Childhood
By Peter Handke
When the child was a child
It walked with its arms swinging,
wanted the brook to be a river,
the river to be a torrent,
and this puddle to be the sea.
When the child was a child,
it didn’t know that it was a child,
everything was soulful,
and all souls were one.
When the child was a child,
it had no opinion about anything,
had no habits,
it often sat cross-legged,
took off running,
had a cowlick in its hair,
and made no faces when photographed.
When the child was a child,
It was the time for these questions:
Why am I me, and why not you?
Why am I here, and why not there?
When did time begin, and where does space end?
Is life under the sun not just a dream?
Is what I see and hear and smell
not just an illusion of a world before the world?
Given the facts of evil and people.
does evil really exist?
How can it be that I, who I am,
didn’t exist before I came to be,
and that, someday, I, who I am,
will no longer be who I am?
When the child was a child,
It choked on spinach, on peas, on rice pudding,
and on steamed cauliflower,
and eats all of those now, and not just because it has to.
When the child was a child,
it awoke once in a strange bed,
and now does so again and again.
Many people, then, seemed beautiful,
and now only a few do, by sheer luck.
It had visualized a clear image of Paradise,
and now can at most guess,
could not conceive of nothingness,
and shudders today at the thought.
When the child was a child,
It played with enthusiasm,
and, now, has just as much excitement as then,
but only when it concerns its work.
When the child was a child,
It was enough for it to eat an apple, … bread,
And so it is even now.
When the child was a child,
Berries filled its hand as only berries do,
and do even now,
Fresh walnuts made its tongue raw,
and do even now,
it had, on every mountaintop,
the longing for a higher mountain yet,
and in every city,
the longing for an even greater city,
and that is still so,
It reached for cherries in topmost branches of trees
with an elation it still has today,
has a shyness in front of strangers,
and has that even now.
It awaited the first snow,
And waits that way even now.
When the child was a child,
It threw a stick like a lance against a tree,
And it quivers there still today.
DESPEDIDAS??
a rosa cresceu muito nestes dias. já come comida sólida e não chama pela mãe. tenta atacar tudo quanto se mova e domina toda a casa, como previsto. hoje adormeceu nas minhas mãos. afinal não as considera inimigas nem um bicho estranho a abater.
não sei se faz muito sentido continuar a manter este blog, este diário. as palavras começam a faltar-me neste verão onde as pessoas morrem e outras apenas cultivam a morte por uma questão de segurança. começo a sentir faltas e a divergir. as distrações do costume. com menos energia, é um facto. nada nos meus dias é tão interessante assim. até são mas é difícil na sobriedade tornar públicas determinadas coisas, que é como quem diz, admitir as merdas, chamar os bois pelos nomes, as inseguranças e as paranoias e as outras merdas todas, as dores e as curiosidades e os desafios e as comunicações travessas.
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não sei se és corajoso
não sei o teu passado todo
não gosto quando me ignoras
não te deixo ir
não me comoves nem deprimes
não me dás mais vida
não me esqueço
não me controles
não posso dizer que não gosto do teu sorriso
não gosto do existencialismo das 6 da tarde ou das 4 da manhã
só te vi uma vez de manhã
só te conheci tarde
só as tuas palavras me contrariam
nunca pensei que ficasses
nunca te ouvi tocar
nunca me deixo ir
nunca me demoverás
nunca penses que isto é sobre ti.
um beijo amigo