'Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away. The office boy left today.' <br />~Fernando Pessoa <br /> <br /> <br />It’s the office boy - <br />And, God… the baby. <br /> <br /> <br />They existed, undeniably so, <br />In the days that came and went <br />[and he loved them] <br />Until they, themselves, <br />Were gone. <br /> <br />Somehow in their going… <br />They became more-real <br /> <br />And the sudden, pained awareness <br />Of their being, then, not-there <br />Was impossible to deny <br />And undeniably unbearable <br />(because he loved them) . <br /> <br /> <br />It’s the office boy – <br />And God, the baby, <br /> <br /> <br />And you <br /> <br />And me <br /> <br />And… that. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />(The 'office boy' quote above was extracted from Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, entry 279 and I first discovered the 'baby' in 'Yes, I Know It's All Quite Natural', a piece attributed to Alvaro De Campos in the book Fernando Pessoa & Co. These two books are among those that NEVER get put away.)<br /><br />Christine Austin Cole<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/and-then-not/
