Pereira Lima - Poet of the Millennium

MODERN-COSMOS

IV - METAPHYSIC


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  1. ASTRAL ERA
  2. INFINITY
  3. UNDERSTAND
  4. NO HUMAN...
  5. ETERNAL QUEST
  6. A. M., B. M.
  7. WHY?
  8. WHY? (II)
  9. ASTROLOGY
  10. INVISIBLE DRAMA
  11. SOMALIA, BIAFRA, RUANDA...
  12. DILEMMA
  13. PURE POETRY
  14. NEVER BE BORN
  15. EXPLOSION OF SHUTTLE "COLUMBIA"
  16. VIEWPOINT
  17. QUESTION TO THE FUTURE







ASTRAL ERA

O God! How can not sin with pride
If You created us according Your resemblance?


INFINITY

Infinity holds and weighs you down!
Suppose it were not blue...


UNDERSTAND

We will understand the universe
If we understand the death of a child.


NO HUMAN...

No human glance goes beyond the horizon.
No man knows more than another man about God.


ETERNAL QUEST

Surely you travel all over the galaxies
Eager to meet new forms of life,
Other thoughtful beings
Maybe you will find deserts in the desert of the Infinite,
More solitude in the cosmic solitude
Not finding life,
Nor death, the certainly not lived.


A. M., B. M.

Each human being is a world.
The History: A.M., B.M. (After Me, Before Me)...


WHY?

Dedicate to Mr. Syed Ameeruddin

Origin of all words:
Why there God? Why death? Why the Creation?
Why, being not eternal,
Are we supposed to contemplate the eternity?


WHY? (II)

Why as much despair and weeping in the funerals?
Why so many diseases, if would suffice
The supreme disease - Death?
Why as much sweat, the struggle for life?
Why the life is expensive, if we are poor?
Why to be born blind before the ultimate blindness?
Ah, we do not choose to live,
At least we might to way to die!


ASTROLOGY

O vain mortal
Why think we control your destiny?
Stars - every beings
They all have the same end in universe.
Nothing in Infinity rises to the surface.


INVISIBLE DRAMA

Those who die alone and nobody knows.
Those whose apartment the police burglarizes...
Dead and abandoned:
Corpse swollen by naught.


SOMALIA, BIAFRA, RUANDA...

Famished negroes in the world
Why is black the poorest colour?...
Hunger! Empty hands around the world...
The first hands God will compliment in the heaven.


DILEMMA

The bad coexistence with God is incomprehensible.
The bad existence without God is injustice.
We touch the mystery
Just like the blind men's look touches the world,
Just like the shadow touches the ground,
Just like the cloud touches the sky.


PURE POETRY

A child starving to death
Asked his mother: "Is there bread in heaven?"


NEVER BE BORN

O! vain effort of Nature
Making the simian become Homo Sapiens!
What is reason for, if it lead us to madness
Not unveiling the proper misadventure:
May be create the Infinite?...


EXPLOSION OF SHUTTLE "COLUMBIA"

Smiles, music, jokes, joy
with the expectation of the arrival...
which became departure.
Like in Hiroshima
A funeral following a bigger funeral.
Like in Pompeii
A play shutting the curtains before the end.
Alone in the Universe, we cry for our dead.
Who knows one day other species
(we look for so much)
will cry for us?


VIEWPOINT

Parmenides: the cosmos is immutable.
Heraclitus: everything changes.
If God exists, there's no need to believe.
If He doesn't exist, it's also unnecessary to believe.
A cup of water in half
Is half empty or half full.
A shadow running on the ground
Bird wings or free leave.


QUESTION TO THE FUTURE

Millions of light-years, on further Galaxies,
thousand millennia after,
You, extra-terrestrial being, will not answer
the question, either:
Newspaper report someone murdered by mistake...
May anyone die by mistake in the universe?




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