Catilina II

Catilina II
To Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Lonely guy would never lie,

Self-initiated in the spiral diving,

Surviving, surely not thriving,

Finding new and uncertain all I try.

Off of everything, I feel free,

Lost in the vertigo of this age,

But latent beating of the city

Returns me to reality, to the cage.

I'm an arrow flung into deep space

Without target, doomed for Infinity,

Unsafe in a destiny I do not trace.

A throbbing energy, an inner shout,

Depleting and casting shadows I embrace

Endless loop, but always out.

José Monge, 2006

Published at Poetry.Com

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