The fury of confession, at first,then the fury of clarity:It was from you, Death, that such hypocriticalobscure feeling was born! And nowlet them accuse me of every passion,let them bad-mouth me, let them say Im deformed,impure, obsessed, a dilettante, a perjurer.You isolate me, you give me the certainty of life,Im on the stake. I play the card of fireand I win this little, immense goodness of mine.I can do it, for I have suffered you too much!I return to you as an migr returnsto his own country and rediscovers it:I made a fortune (in the intellect)and Im happy, as I once was,destitute of any norm,a black rage of poetry in my breast.A crazy old-age youth.Once your joy was confused with terror,its true, and now almost with other joy,livid and arid, my passion deluded.Now you really frighten me,for you are truly close to me,part of my angry state, of obscure hunger,of the anxiety almost of a new being.

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Themes

  • Death — Contemplations on mortality, loss, and the legacy we leave
  • Poetry — The art of language, rhythm, and emotional expression

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