Your eyes go sad. You’re not
Listening to what I say.
They doze, dream, fade out.
Not listening. I talk away.
I tell what I’ve told, out of listless
Sadness, so often before…
I think you never listened,
So you’re away you are.
All of a sudden, an absent
Stare, you look at me, still
Immeasurably distant,
You begin a smile.
I go on talking. You
Go on listening – your own
Thoughts you listen to,
The smile as good as gone,
Until, through the loafing
Afternoon’s waste of while,
The silence self-unleafing
Of your useless smile.
Fernando Pessoa
(Fernando Pessoa)
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