Fernando Pessoa #07 - Demogorgon

It seems intuitive that truth ought to be sought after by any person, no matter how the degree of seriousness, the frequency, the method. We believe in truth. We believe in everyday truths & hold people accountable for them. In fact, while the truth can set you free, it can also lock you up or even reward you with a death sentence. But what would happen if one were able to "forget about truth"? Or, to use Pessoa's phrasing, if truth forgot about me? In this poem, signed by Álvaro de Campos, Pessoa explores the part of human being that years to be severed from truth, to be exempt from the necessity to seek it, to suffer its absence, to always live in its shadow.