Monday, May 21, 2012

Original's Translation Exercise - Half truths/Half Lies


It is all of that plus a nothing that drowns me in its oppression. The emptiness and the desire walking hand in hand, in a dislocated alliance that defragments the illogic being with which I cannot deal. It is  all of that.

A piece of thought in the form of disqualified dream. That mediocre expectation one has when there is nothing else to do and that makes you fear everything, even when that  everything boils down to absolutely nothing. A glass half empty in a table set for one. Because the thirst to have it all never allows the cup such circumstance as the one of being half full.

I will get a dictionary and throw it at your head in hopes that, out of it, comes an assortment of words which form a sentence with the slightest bit of logic to transmit something that I might want to say. If I think enough about those words that I don’t find and in those sentences I cannot put together as the dictionary hits you, will something good enough come out of it? As for me, I’ll throw myself into a house of mirrors to know and be filled with the person I live with, maybe then I won’t feel so lonely or maybe I’ll turn into a lunatic whose disease can be proven, then, with it, I’ll be able to justify everything, these texts written late and at a bad time, as no time it such type of thoughts can be good.

You know what want I tell you? Throw yourself down that abyss so that you can end up with your face on the floor where you once saw it smeared on. More of the same tastes as something new when you don’t want to search for more, isn’t it? Go through those roads where you’ve lost and couldn’t find yourself, not yourself nor anything but loneliness. Discourses of self-reflection aren’t worth a thing when you don’t accept yourself, child, who doesn’t know how to walk but already dreams of not walking but teletransporting and tells himself that nothing is impossible unless we determine it so.

Half truths or half lies? Everything depends on perspective and when such thing is my responsibility I prefer to say everything I think and make up what I don’t think, abuse of cruelty and kindness and be whatever I want to. Half truths or half lies? Only I know and even so, in the end, all that is said is worth something. Interpret whatever you want but here is the warning, you’re in the house of appearances where not even the walls you see you truly know. 

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Berlin Song



There is no such happiness in life as being with those special, some would say, ones you love. Even if they don't know it. Even if you are not quite aware of it. Even if years have gone by. An assortment of "even ifs" to big to fully grasp. I'm happy.

There is no such sadness as leaving those people behind, those you hold so close to your heart that it is almost like you leave a piece of yourself with them, which they will always hold, even if they don't know it. No hopes for a swift return to one another. No certainties that you will ever in your life meet again. No capital letters to say how much you will miss them. Nothing. Not a single tear shed or honest word spoken. Yet a handful, even yourself full, of hopes that one day, well, maybe one day, more later than sooner... One cannot simply have all the things one hopes for, isn't it?

That is the bittersweetness of life summed-up in one single action, one single simple thing: meeting people just to eventually leave them behind, in a past that might just not represent a future. And you just leave their rare smiles, remarkable looks, awkward companionship, all of that and so much more that you so profoundly cherish in a corner of your brain, that one that makes you remember everything so vividly.

I don't like goodbyes. So what do you say when "see you around" doesn't apply?

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