Autodestruimo-nos para não morrer
Mas talvez devêssemos esperar.
Esperar como?,
Se é o tédio que nos consome
E quando já esperamos a vida toda.

No trabalho
Com o tempo inútil, morto,
que damos.
Quando obedecemos
A homens e a palavras
Que nos fazem ninguém.
Cometemos suicídio
Cometemos suicídio
Todos os dias

Incapazes de reagir
Asfixiamos na escuridão,
Convalescemos
A enganar a fome.
O suicídio não é senão
O que ficou lá atrás
A olhar de volta para nós.

(Vivemos) o suicídio.


"I commit suicide when I devote, to hours of absorbing work, an amount of energy which I am not able to recapture, or when I engage in work which I know to be useless.…I commit suicide whenever I consent to obey oppressive men or measures. I commit suicide whenever I convey to another individual, by the act of voting, the right to govern me for four years.…Complete suicide is nothing but the final act of total inability to react against the environment. These acts, of which I have spoken of as partial suicides, are not therefore less truly suicidal. It is because I lack the power to react against society, that I inhabit a place without light and air, that I do not eat in accordance with my hunger or my taste, that I am a soldier or a voter, that I subject my love to laws or to compulsion."

Albert Libertad (1875–1908) in “Every day we commit suicide partially”


We autodestruct to avoid dying.
But maybe we should wait.
Wait how?
If it’s boredom that consumes us
And we already waited our whole life.

At work,
With the useless and dead time
we give.
When we obey
To people and words
That make us nobodies.

Unable to react
We choke in the darkness.
We convalesce
Deceiving hunger.
Suicide is no more than
What was left behind
Looking back at us.

(We live) Suicide


"I commit suicide when I devote, to hours of absorbing work, an amount of energy which I am not able to recapture, or when I engage in work which I know to be useless.…I commit suicide whenever I consent to obey oppressive men or measures. I commit suicide whenever I convey to another individual, by the act of voting, the right to govern me for four years.…Complete suicide is nothing but the final act of total inability to react against the environment. These acts, of which I have spoken of as partial suicides, are not therefore less truly suicidal. It is because I lack the power to react against society, that I inhabit a place without light and air, that I do not eat in accordance with my hunger or my taste, that I am a soldier or a voter, that I subject my love to laws or to compulsion."
Albert Libertad (1875–1908) in “Every day we commit suicide partially”