Melancholy, Qwerty is thy Name

¿Que es la melancolía?

La luz extinguida, el frio del alba, el anochecer de un sueño, el final de la alegría.
I think of myself as a melancholic person. Despite my joyful and perky outside there´s a shadow that eclipses my happiness. Maybe that shadow comes on my calling. Maybe I`m the designer of my own despair. I`m only waiting for that Magic Bus to take me away.


Sentado frente al computador recordé un poema de W.H. Auden que escuche una vez y nunca pude borrar de mi mente. Me doy cuenta ahora de que puedo decir que petenezco a ese selecto grupo de personas que, a la pregunta de "¿Cuál es tu poema preferido?" puede dar una respuesta válida jaj.
Bueno, los dejo con la porción que mas me gusta y, al pie, para cortar un poco lo dulce un pequeño chiste de "4 bodas y un funeral" la película en la cual descubrí este hermoso poema.




Funeral Blues

She was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever; I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood,
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

W. H. Auden




Four Weddings and a Funeral

Charles (Hugh Grant): Do you think there really are people who can just go up and say, "Hi, babe. Name's Charles. This is your lucky night"?

Matthew (John Hannah): Well, if there are, they're not English.