ALENTEJO SEEN FROM THE TRAIN

by Fernando Pessoa · 1907
Published 01/07/1907

Nothing with nothing around it

And a few trees in between

None of which very clearly green,

Where no river or flower pays a visit.

If there be a hell, I've found it,

For if ain't here, where the Devil is it?

#barren landscape #desolation #existential dread #fernando pessoa #isolation

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