Loving is eternal innocence

I believe in the world like I believe in a marigold,
Because i see it. But I don't think about it
because to think is not to understand ...
The world wasn't made for us to think about
But for us to look at and agree with ...

I don't have a philosophy: I have senses ...
If I talk about Nature, it's not because I know what it is,
But because I love it, and the reason I love it
Is because when you love you never know what you love
Or why you love, or what loving is ...

Loving is eternal innocence,
And the only innocence is not thinking ...

Alberto Caeiro
from 'The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro'
Published by Shearsman Books, Exeter.

Printed in Resurgence Magazine, July/August 2010, p.47