0541] OPPOSITIONAL SONNET

#0541 OPPOSITIONAL SONNET

Because what is early is late and what is late is early; because what is afternoon is morning and night is day; because pain is pleasure, sad is gladness; because hatred is love, courage is fear;

If plagiarism is something more creative than imitative; if that which addicts expresses more virtue; if worthless is everything that was valuable before; if everybody already knows the secret;

Because language is a baroque doublethinking; because he who wants more gets less; if what is lacking abounds and what abounds should be scarce

Because sense is never where it should be, I take back what I've said and call life death, if blindness is any kind of light.

SONNETTO CONTRARIADO

Por ser o cedo tarde e o tarde cedo; por ser tarde a manhan e a noite dia; por ser gostosa a dor, triste a alegria; por serem odio amor, coragem medo; si o plagio é mais invento que arremedo; si exprime mais virtude o que vicia; si nada vale tudo que valia; si todos ja conhescem o segredo; por ser duplipensar barroco a lingua; por menos ter aquelle que mais quer; si a falta excede e tanto abunda a mingua; por nunca estar o nexo onde estiver, desdigo o que fallei e a vida xingo-a de morte, si é cegueira luz qualquer.