Headlights

' Faróis ' , de Álvaro de Campos

Distant headlights,

With glows so suddenly alight,

With nights and an absence that so rapidly came back,

At night, on decks, such ailing consequences!

Last sorrow of the dismissed,

Fiction of thought ...

Distant headlights...

Life's uncertainties...

The alighted glows came back forwardly,

By chance, as in a lost glance...

Distant headlights...

Life is useless...

To think about life is useless...

To think about thinking about life is useless...

Let us go far away so the great light coming will no longer be that great.

Distant headlights ...