Wispy Songs I Compose While Waiting

Le Gouffre (The Chasm)

I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up.
I don’t know where it will take me, because I don’t know anything. I could see this inn as a prison, for I’m compelled to wait in it. I could see it as a social center, for it’s here that I meet others. But I’m neither impatient nor common. I leave who will to stay shut up in their rooms, sprawled out on beds where they sleeplessly wait, and I leave who will to chat in the parlors, from where their songs and voices conveniently drift out here to me. I’m sitting at the door, feasting my eyes and ears on the colors and sounds of the landscape, and I softly sing – for myself alone – wispy songs I compose while waiting.
Night will fall on us all and the coach will pull up. I enjoy the breeze I’m given and the soul I was given to enjoy it with, and I no longer question or seek. If what I write in the book of travellers can, when read by others at some future date, also entertain them on their journey, then fine. If they don’t read it, or are not entertained, that’s fine too.
--Fernando Pessoa

OTHERNESS WATCHES US FROM THE SHADOWS
THAT VERY END OF THE WORLD WE WERE SEEKING