Grow up!!!

Grow up!!!

  Alarga os teus horizontes  

Por que é que combateis? Dir-se-á, ao ver-vos, 

Que o Universo acaba aonde chegam 

Os muros da cidade, e nem há vida 

Além da órbita onde as vossas giram, 

E além do Fórum já não há mais mundo! 

Tal é o vosso ardor! tão cegos tendes 

Os olhos de mirar a própria sombra, 

Que dir-se-á, vendo a força, as energias 

Da vossa vida toda, acumuladas 

Sobre um só ponto, e a ânsia, o ardente vórtice, 

Com que girais em torno de vós mesmos, 

Que limitais a terra à vossa sombra... 

Ou que a sombra vos torna a terra toda! 

Dir-se-á que o oceano imenso e fundo e eterno, 

Que Deus há dado aos homens, por que banhem 

O corpo todo, e nadem à vontade, 

E vaguem a sabor, com todo o rumo, 

Com todo o norte e vento, vão e percam-se 

De vista, no horizonte sem limites... 

Dir-se-á que o mar da vida é gota d'água 

Escassa, que nas mãos vos há caído, 

De avara nuvem que fugiu, largando-a... 

Tamanho é o ódio com que a uns e a outros 

A disputais, temendo que não chegue! 

Homens! para quem passa, arrebatado 

Na corrente da vida, nessas águas 

Sem limites, sem fundo - há mais perigo 

De se afogar, que de morrer à sede!

De que vale disputar o espaço estreito, 

Que cobre a sombra da árvore da pátria, 

Quando são vossos cinco continentes? 

De que vale apinhar-se junto à fonte 

Que - fininha - brotou por entre as urzes, 

Quando há sete mil ondas por cada homem? 

De que vale digladiar por uma fita, 

Que mal cobre um botão, quando estendida 

Deus pôs sobre a cabeça de seus filhos 

A tenda, de ouro e azul, do firmamento? 

De que vale concentrar-se a vida toda 

Numa paixão apenas, quando o peito 

É tão rico, que basta dar-lhe um toque 

Por que brotem, aos mil, os sentimentos?! 

Oh! a vida é um abismo! mas fecundo! 

Mas imenso! tem luz - e luz que cegue. 

Inda a águia de Patmos - e tem sombras 

E tem negrumes, como o antigo Caos: 

Tem harmonias, que parecem sonhos 

De algum anjo dormido; e tem horrores 

Que os nem sonha o delírio! 

É imensa a vida, 

Homens! não disputeis um raio escasso 

Que vem daquele sol; a ténue nota, 

Que vos chega daquelas harmonias; 

a penumbra, que escapa àquelas sombras; 

O tremor, que vos vem desses horrores. 

Sol e sombras, horror e harmonias 

De quem é isto, se não é do homem?! 

Não disputeis, curvado o corpo todo, 

As migalhas da mesa do banquete: 

Erguei-vos! e tomai lugar á mesa... 

Que há lugar no banquete para todos: 

Que a vida não é átomo tenuíssimo, 

Que um feliz apanhou, no ar, voando, 

E guardou para si, e os outros, pobres, 

Deserdados, invejam - é o ar todo, 

Que respiramos; e esse, inda mais livre, 

Que nos respira a alma - a terra firma. 

Onde pomos os pés, e o céu profundo 

Aonde o olhar erguemos - é o imenso, 

Que se infiltra do átomo ao colosso; 

Que se ocultou aqui, e além se mostra; 

Que traz a luz dourada, e leva a treva; 

Que dá raiva às paixões, e unge os seios 

Com o bálsamo do amor; que ao vício, ao crime, 

Agita, impele, anima, e que à virtude 

Lá dá consolações - que beija as frontes 

De povo e rei, de nobre e de mendigo; 

E embala a flor, e eleva as grandes vagas; 

Que tem lugar no seio, para todos; 

Que está no rir, e está também nas lágrimas, 

E está na bacanal como na prece!... 

Antero de Quental

"Odes modernas - Vida"

TITO COLAÇO

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