Posted by from_Brzil
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Hi friends, I feel compelled to share this.. (I guess, because of the people and energy I find here... great people that I've come to respect and love... without knowing..) It is something written by my father.. (it is much more than that to me.. That knew him, his life, and the kind of man he was...) .. It was found in his wallet, after he passed away..
His life was cut short, in a "stupid" car accident.. I couldn't see him.. I was living abroad... But, I did have a Good-bye last talk with him, over the phone.. last time we ever talked to each other... And crying deeply , over the phone, he said, among other amazing things : " Son, I can no longer wait for you... I'm not going to see you "....
I guess he already knew..
( I'll write a background history later...bellow the poem... )
I'll try to translate/Verse it to English as best as I can... without losing meaning... since it was written in portuguese... (and English is not my mother language..)
Ps: it is interesting to note, that, I've never seem him reading... He was a man of "living it", I guess...I did use to see him... sitting alone on the bench at night... as if thinking about life.. rss.. And I'm sure he wasn't into New age reading... didn't even know the term "new age". He had something special in his heart... helped a lot of people.
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DEUS
Passei tanto tempo Te procurando, não sabia onde estavas, olhava para o infinito, não Te via. E pensava comigo mesmo: será que Tu existes? Não me contentava na busca e perseguia, tentava encontrar nas religiões, nos templos, Tu também não estavas. Te busquei através dos sacerdotes e pastores, também não Te encontrei. Senti-me só, vazio, desesperado e fiquei descrente. E na descrença, Te ofendi. E na ofensa, tropecei. E no tropeço, caí. E na queda, senti-me fraco. Fraco, procurei socorro, no socorro encontrei amigos, nos amigos encontrei carinho, no carinho eu vi nascer o amor, com amor eu vi um mundo novo. E no mundo novo, resolvi viver. O que recebi, resolvi doar. Doando alguma coisa, muito recebi e, em recebendo, senti-me feliz. Ao ser feliz, encontrei a paz, e tendo paz foi que enxerguei, que dentro de mim é que Tu estavas e, sem procurar, foi que Te encontrei "
JOsé Pedro de Andrade
" GOD
So much time looking for you, didn’t know where you were, I’d look to the Infinity, couldn’t see you. And I would think to myself: Do you really exist ?. I couldn’t give up the search, I persisted, tried to find you in the religions, in the temples, but didn’t find you.. I sought you through the pastors, priests, , but there also, didn’t find you. I felt alone, empty, desperate, and fell in disbelief. And, in disbelief, I offended you. In offending, I stumbled. And Stumbling, I fell . In my fall, I felt weak. Weak, I sought for help, in seeking help I found friends, on the friends I found caress, in caress I saw Love being born, and with Love I saw a new World. And in the New World, I decided to live. What I received, I decided to give back. In giving , a lot I received, and, in receiving, I felt happy. Being happy, I found peace, and in having peace, was I then able to see, that, Inside me is where you Were , and, without seeking, found you.
JOsé Pedro de Andrade
I feel compelled to share this...
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