Poem for Jose Saramago by Teresinka Pereira

JOSE SARAMAGO

1922-2010



"Immortality does not exist"



Your words may resist

the death of your veins

and this absurd shout

to which we are condemmed

by time.



All the roads of letters and arts

are sprouted in our anguish

and distant illusions

of immortality.



Your work imposes itself

in the eternity we are left with

and this ambitious hope

that fine works of art will last

forever

in our earthly minds.



TERESINKA PEREIRA