As Sem-Razões do Amor (Carlos Drummond de Andrade )

If there is someone I miss from my teen years is Carlos Drummond de Andrade, the best well know poet in Brazil. Specially his erotic poems. It touch me in such a profound way that I feel it in my body. This poem it's about love though. The vid is fantastic with music by Mandy Moore. I was 13 when I first read Carlos and 18 when I first read his Erotica compilation after his death. and I was felt he understood what I felt via his Erotic poems.






I love you because I love you
There is no need to be a lover
And no need to know how to be
I love you because I love you
Love is a state of mindless
And with love we don’t pay anything

Love is free of charge, it is given away
It is taken all over with the wind like seeds
In a waterfall, in an eclipse
Love run away of dictionaries
And all the laws and regulations

I love you because I don’t love you
Enough and too much for me
Because love it is not an exchange
It is not verbalized
Because love is love of the nothingness
Happy and strong in itself

Love is the death’s cousin
And from death, the winner
As much as each moment is killed (and they do kill)
With love.