I believe in tears.
They know the eye that wept them.
They know the pain of seeing.
***
I believe in lullabays:
They are the oldest song that exists,
And they will exist as long as nights exist.
***
I believe in myself.
I believe in the home that I am,
The roof over my silence.
***

I believe in the tear of a fish
That gives us the sea.
The ocean.
***
I believe in those who look at the sea
For so long
Until it becomes their eyes.
***
I believe in the beauty of the world:
In the moon hanging in the window.
In a leaf made of sun.

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Indefinite space, which, by co-substance night,
In one black mystery two void mysteries blends;
The stray stars, whose innumerable light
Repeats one mystery till conjecture ends;
The stream of time, known by birth-bursting bubbles;
The gulf of silence, empty even of nought;
Thought's high-walled maze, which the outed owner troubles
Because the string's lost and the plan forgot:
When I think on this and that here I stand,
The thinker of these thoughts, emptily wise,
Holding up to my thinking my thing-hand
And looking at it with thought-alien eyes,
The prayer of my wonder looketh past
The universal darkness lone and vast.

Fernando Pessoa, Sonnet XVIII

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