IN MEMORIAM

it was only one hour ago
it was all so different then
there's nothing yet has really sunk in
looks like it always did
this flesh
and bone
is just the way that you were tied in
now there's no one home
I grieve
for you
you leave
me
it's so hard to move on
still loving what's gone
they say life carries on
carries on and on
and on
and on

the news that truly shocks
is the empty, empty page
while the final rattle rocks
its empty, empty cage
and I can't handle this
I grieve
for you
and you leave
me
let it out and move on
missing what's gone
they say life carries on
they say life carries on
and on
and on

life carries on in the people I meet
in everyone that's out on the street
in all the dogs and cats
in the flies and the rats
in the rot and the rust
in the ashes, in the dust
and life carries on and on
and on and on
life carries on and on
and on

it's the car that we ride in
the home we reside in
the face that we hide in
the way that we are tied in
and life carries on and on
and on and on
life carries on and on
and on

did I dream this belief
or did I believe this dream
now I can't find relief

I grieve.

(Peter Gabriel: "I Grieve", para D. e J.C., porque quero dizer algo, porque não sei o que dizer nem como dizê-lo e porque, mesmo correndo o risco de parecer banal, mesmo que esteja a ser inoportuno, mesmo que não sirva de nada, prefiro dizê-lo assim a não dizer nada.
E, sempre, em memória do Rui Ferreira, a quem nunca soube dizer em pessoa, enquanto pude, o tanto, o tudo que ainda, hoje, todos estes anos depois, lhe devo.)