My revolution is sweetness and sincerity even if it's out of spite. My religion is love.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. - Douglas Yates 


Love is a fire that burns unseen,
a wound that aches yet isn’t felt,
an always discontent contentment,
a pain that rages without hurting,

a longing for nothing but to long,
a loneliness in the midst of people,
a never feeling pleased when pleased,
a passion that gains when lost in thought.

It’s being enslaved of your own free will;
it’s counting your defeat a victory;
it’s staying loyal to your killer.

But if it’s so self-contradictory,
how can Love, when Love chooses,
bring human hearts into sympathy?

― Luís Vaz de Camões, Sonetos de Camões

As is the greatest musical score, love is replete with silences, accumulated feelings from history and that soundless vocabulary of the seemingly empty fullness of space. -sbv

Amor...o papel principal.

Há alturas em que é apenas isso: ouvir. Saber escutar lamentos, gestos, ansiedades, hesitações. Saber ouvir para lá do que se diz. Saber entender para lá do que nos mostram. Saber sentir e confiar nos instintos e saber apenas observar e absorver informação. Não comentar, não alvitrar, não dizer absolutamente nada. Não tentar confortar um coração que não precisa de conforto, apenas de que o oiçam. Não debitar lugares-comuns que não acrescentam nada, por muito acertados que sejam. Saber ser apenas o ombro que acolhe, a mão que afaga o cabelo, o sorriso sincero. Saber que, ao escutarmos, damos ao outro o papel principal e, ao falarmos, ainda que sobre e para o outro, assumimos nós esse papel. 

E há alturas em que mais vale ser um digníssimo actor secundário do que um medíocre actor principal. 
João Monge Ferreira

Love ... the main role. There are times when it is just this: to listen. Hear laments, gestures, anxieties, hesitation. Knowing how to listen to what is being said. Learn understand beyond that show us. Learn feel and trusting your instincts and know only observe and absorb information. Do not comment on, do not say, do not say absolutely nothing. Do not try to comfort a heart that does not need comfort, only that will listen. Not debit common places that do not add anything, by very successful they are.

And there are times when it is better to be an honorable supporting actor than a mediocre main actor.

“Every virtuous act has some dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.”  -Gregory David Roberts 

Falling On His Knees

Falling on his knees

onto nothingness

from a higher height than the house where he was born,

the pilgrim:

today is the day to be with you

in a fall that is but naked and forsaken,

today is the day to be with the wind

in a whirl of wandering empty roses;

to be with you

like a wound in a consenting and harsh night

to be with you

like a sail in the deep outdoors of time,

to be with you

like bread thrown at the memory of the sea in infancy,

to be with you

floating over a life that keeps its gaze

while yielding the colour of its eyes,

to be with you

dying slowly listening to the future sound of your steps,

to be with you

being born barefoot onto the wet scented earth,

to be with you

with a humble voice, more naked than silence,

to be with you

mind emptied, leaning over

veins of stones and words,

to be only with you

no longer me.
 - Fernando Eduardo Carita