In memory of myself

Paul Auster

Simply to have stopped.

As if I could begin
where my voice has stopped, myself
the sound of a word

I cannot speak.

So much silence
to be brought to life
in this pensive flesh, the beating
drum of words
within, so many words

lost in the wide world
within me, and thereby to have known
that in spite of myself.

I am here.

As if this were the world.

Fonte: Pinto, J. N. 2002. Solos do silêncio, 3ª edição. SP, Geração Editorial. Poema publicado em livro em 1980.