Deep Forest

The night and the chaos are part of me.
I go back to the silence of the stars.
I am the effect of a cause of time,
of the Universe [perhaps I exceed it].
To find myself, I must search for myself among the flowers, the birds, the fields and the cities,
in the deeds, words and thoughts of men,
in the night of the sun and the forgotten ruins of worlds that have disappeared today.
The more I grow, the less I am.
The more I have, the less I want.
The more I find myself, the more I lose myself.
The more I try myself, the more I see that I am a flower …
and bird and star and universe.
The more I define myself, the less limits I have.
I overflow everything. Deep down I am the same as God.
My present presence contains the ages before life,
the times older than the earth,
the gaps of space before the world was “.
• Fernando Pessoa •