EMANUEL FÉLIX - Pedra-Poema para Henry Moore

Rock-Poem for Henry Moore

A man can love a rock
a rock loved by a man is not a rock
but a rock loved by a man

Love can not modify a rock 
a rock is an object hard and lifeless
a rock is a rock and that's it

A man can love the sacred space that exists between a man 
                                                                                [and a rock
a rock where something starts or ends
where he can lay his head for a night
or over which he can build a stairway to the high

A rock is a rock
(neither love nor hate can modify it)

But if it so happens that a man comes to love a rock
let it be not a rock and nothing more
but a rock loved by a man

Let the man love the rock
and that's it

Emanuel Félix, Colecção Completa, p. 81

Tradução: Rogério Sousa