Portuguese Sea

a poem by Fernando Pessoa

O salty sea, so much of whose salt
Is Portugalโ€™s tears! All the mothers
Who had to weep for us to cross you!
All the sons who prayed in vain!
All the brides-to-be who never
Married for you to be ours, O sea!

Was it worth doing? Everythingโ€™s worth doing
If the soul of the doer isnโ€™t small.
Whoever would go beyond the Cape
Must go beyond sorrow.
God placed danger and the abyss in the sea,
But he also made it heavenโ€™s mirror.

CONCLUSION

Revelation 20 and psalm 88 mention the abyss. In 1988, James Cameron filmed โ€œThe Abyssโ€. Just coincidence? or is JC a brother from a masonic mother?

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