Poetry Reading: DEATH, by FERNANDO MAGELA DA SILVA
POETRY READINGS • 1m 31s
Performed by Val Cole
DEATH, by FERNANDO MAGELA DA SILVA
From my most unbreakable certainty, I worship my most
visceral doubt, the legacy of death, day by day, in
seconds that drag on through my time, and to his
throne, now I am attentive, now I am careless
Death seems fair to me, it does not segregate, by any
race and age, in the most remote of places it is
projected
For any moment, it will be postulated in front of my
orbit, in front of yours, it will be made available,
it will have to be made unavoidable before the chosen
one.
It can be apotheotic, like that, well, still, who will
know, will be shy
It will make it heartbreaking, intense, the most
intrinsic of my pains, of your pains
It will amputate the presence, in a cutting act it
will empty the heart of hope and fill it with an
incognito and opaque void.
It will make us think about an envelope of revolt,
fear, anguish
Thus, it will be divinely strenuous, and will
sovereignly provide us with the most infamous of the
factors consigned to death, the warlike questioning
that kills us in responses that do not embrace, that
do not shut up, that do not stroke
As sad as dying is seeing someone in love die in
death.
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