Love letters

All the love letters are
Ridiculous.
They would not be love letters if they weren’t 
Ridiculous.

I also wrote love letters in my time 
Like the others,
Ridiculous.

Love letters, when there is love,
Must be
Ridiculous.

But ultimately,
Only creatures who have never written
Love Letters
are Ridiculous 

I wish I had realized that at the time I wrote 
Love Letters
Ridiculous.

The truth is that today,
My memories of 
Those love letters
are
Ridiculous.

(All frilly words,
as well as frilly feelings .
are naturally
Ridiculous.)

Álvaro de Campos, 10/21/1935 (Fernando Pessoa)