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I Am Tired

I am tired, that is clear,

Because, at certain stage, people have to be tired.

Of what I am tired,

I don't know:

It would not serve me at all to

Since the tiredness stays just the same.

The wound hurts as it

And not in function of the cause that produced it.

Yes,

I am tired,

And ever so slightly

At the tiredness being only this -In the body a wish for sleep,

In the soul a desire for not

And, to crown all, a luminous

Of the retrospective understanding…And the one luxury of not now having hopes?

I am intelligent: that's all.

I have seen much and understood much of what Ihave seen.

And there is a certain pleasure even in tirednessthis brings us,

That in the end the head does still serve forsomething.written under the pen name of,

Alvaro de Campos

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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and phi…

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