I don't know how many souls I have Poem by Fernando Pessoa

I don't know how many souls I have



I don't know how many souls I have.
I've changed at every moment.
I always feel like a stranger.
I've never seen or found myself.
From being so much, I have only soul.
A man who has soul has no calm.
A man who sees is just what he sees.
A man who feels is not who he is.

Attentive to what I am and see,
I become them and stop being I.
Each of my dreams and each desire
Belongs to whoever had it, not me.
I am my own landscape,
I watch myself journey -
Various, mobile, and alone.
Here where I am I can't feel myself.

That's why I read, as a stranger,
My being as if it were pages.
Not knowing what will come
And forgetting what has passed,
I note in the margin of my reading
What I thought I felt.
Rereading, I wonder: "Was that me?"
God knows, because he wrote it.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Anil Kumar Panda 13 April 2020

Beautiful lines. Everyone is going through his own journey. Though we cross paths each individual has to reach a particular destination. A sort of philosophical poem. Loved it.

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