GOODBYE - O ungrateful child! <br />You said to me - goodbye -? <br />Madness! better it would be <br />To separate the land from the skies. <br /> <br />- Goodbye - somber word! <br />Of a frozen and cold soul <br />You are the last flower. <br /> <br />- Goodbye! - misery! lie <br />Of a breast that does not sigh, <br />Of a heart without love. <br /> <br />O Lord! The wasteland bird <br />dies without a mate. <br />The lightning that burns the cedar <br />Burnt the parasite. <br /> <br />The star flirts with the dew: <br />- One is the star of the twig, <br />- The other is the dew of the amplitude. <br /> <br />But, at the light of the rising sun, <br />The star - in the west dies! <br />The dew - dies in the soil! <br /> <br />Never the fogs of the valley <br />Learnt how to say - goodbye - <br />If together they ascend from the ground, <br />Together they are lost in skies. <br /> <br />The wave dies on the shore… <br />But another wave comes soon <br />To die of the same pain… <br /> <br />- Goodbye - somber word! <br />Do not say - goodbye -, Maria! <br />Or do not speak to me of love!<br /><br />Antonio de Castro Alves<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/goodbye-454/
