“Rainbow” on Mt Wellington “I am Tired” by Fernando Pessoa

We smell smoke. The ancient forests are burning. yet still we deny Climate Change and so the wilderness is no more. “Rainbow” wears his bright colours to hide his tiredness of human’s capacity to pretend. That and he is an eternal optimist that the young will find a way not to deny the truth and save our planet.

I am Tired by Fernando Pessoa

I am tired, that is clear,

Because, at certain stage, people have to be tired.

Of what I am tired, I don’t know.

It would not serve me at all well to know

Since the tiredness stays just the same.

The wound hurts as it hurts

And not in function of the cause that produced it.

Yes, I am tired,

And ever so slightly smiling

At the tiredness being only this-

In the body a wish to sleep,

In the soul a desire for thinking

And, to crown all, a luminous transparency

Of the retrospective understanding…

And the one luxury of not now having hopes?
I am intelligent; that’s all.

I have seen much and understand much of what I have seen.

And there is a certain pleasure even in tiredness this brings us,

That is the end the head does still serve for something.