terça-feira, 6 de maio de 2008

D. H. Lawrence

"Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths,
love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock
molten, yet dense and permanent.
Go down to your deep old heart, woman, and lose sight
of yourself.
And lose sight of me, the me whom you turbulently loved.
Let us lose sight of ourselves, and break the mirrors.
For the fierce curve of our lives is moving again to the depths
out of sight, in the deep dark living heart.

But say, in the dark wild metal of your heart
is there a gem, which came into being between us?
is there a sapphire of mutual trust, a blue spark?
is there a ruby of fused being, mine and yours, an inward
glint?

If there is not, o then leave me, go away.
For I cannot be bullied back into the appearences of love,
any more than August can be bullied to look like March.

Love out of season, especially at the end of the season
is merely ridiculous.
If you insist on it, I insist on departure.

Haave you no deep old heart of wild womanhood
self-forgetful, and gemmed with experience,
and swinging in a strange unison of power
with the heart of the man you are supposed to have loved?

If you have not, go away.
If you can only sit with a mirror in your hand, an ageing
woman
posing on and on as a lover,
in love with a self that now is shalow and withered,
your own self - that has passed like a last summer's
flower-
then go away-

I do not want a woman whom age cannot wither.
She is a made up lie, a dyed immortelle
of infinite staleness"

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