Exercício 16 - Tradução do Poema “Não inventes”

Don’t feign

 

Don’t come with shit. Don’t feign.

Don’t look at my eyes. Just leave.

And spare me the ornate speeches

And the farewell sham. Don’t make a scene.

 

Don’t tell me you’re sorry or that life

Is like that sometimes: that it forgets everything;

That the world and time heal any wound.

I repeat, my love: disappear.

 

And take whatever you want of everything

We suspected sharing one day:

The Books, the sculptures made in holy wood,

The discs, the portraits, the snooker.

 

Don’t leave any addresses. Please:

I just want you to fuck yourself, my love.