Socrates: A Bright Master! Poem by Adilson Pinto

hello you there!
Understand yourself!
No, no: don't be ignorant about your own self!
Go deep inside you, till the most abyssal of you,
Go into those dark regions of yourself,
Because life doesn't give itself to those whom don't understand
The reasons of their way of acting...

No, no: don't act like a fool!
Don't act separately of your acting:
You and your act must be only one,
Exactly as the eagle and its flight they are only one!
I mean: don't fly like an aircraft whose pilot lost its control
And then the aircraft flies by itself,
And falls, and it explodes, and kills hundred people Because of its crazy flight!

Hello you, there!
Look for a deep understand of yourself
Like Socrates did!