THE GOOD AND THE EVIL

 THE GOOD AND THE EVIL

Poem by Paulo Rebelo

Inspired by the writings of Gabriel García Márquez and a tribute to him.

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The bad part

from my conscience

keeps telling me

To continue

defying my destiny,

Which it forsees how it will be;

Only to continue like exactly like this,

a lonely life,

monotonous and insipid

as if that

was a waste

Of my existence.

And that's why

Inevitably I sin,

Becoming a constant Transgressor of good morals,

A child

playing with fire,

a renegade,

One next to an 

Irrational animal,

An incurable perpetrator

of sins,

most venal,

socially accepted

with veiled convictions

And no punishment,

However, I do not pass unscathed;

Here I am free, 

but with some guilt,

because I'm a vivid

contrast that reminds me

with some morbid pleasure

To what worlds I belong to

And I ended up with the conclusion That I'm in both of them,

who cohabitately

Inside of me,

Like Siamese sisters;

The good and the evil.

And when I see them walk away

from each other,

I sigh with the pain,

this atrocious contradiction

existing in me,

like a boat

That parts

Never to return.

Paulo Rebelo, the poet doctor.