The Muse and The Surfer.


“You came like a wave, and your current pulled me toward you.
As a surfer, I had to try to reach you — and after hearing your angelic voice, you captured my heart.

There, among the rocks at São Sebastião beach, with a small waterfall on one side and a stone wall on the other,
with little pools of water and a tree at the top that refuses to fall — right there, in what you called our Portal,
I fell, surrendering to love at first sight. I kissed your hand and called you my muse. “

-Damdamge

After that first touch, we spent an hour talking at the Portal.
I returned later and left poetry for her along the path to the Portal and inside the Portal itself.
I wanted to give her a beautiful handmade ring I had found on the streets of Porto.
But unfortunately, I dropped the ring inside the Portal and lost it.
After searching for it without success, I gave up.
I went back again, hoping to see the woods and to see her once more —
but we never saw each other again.

I hope she will one day see this painting, which is now in a gallery in São Sebastião, in the hands of a magical little shop — Shop 30.
Everyone is welcome to go and see it, and I hope that one day, a museum or a Casa da Cultura will accept this painting as a small part of a bigger story.

One of the rocks was destroyed two days after the storm by some angry, mad men.
But that made me realize: no one is strong enough to destroy poetry.
And if I was able to create such a strong feeling in someone unknown,
then my words will live on — forever.

After I recovered some parts of my poesy and put them back together, someone kept destroying them.
So I made my words indestructible.

After I leave the city of Ericeira somebody steal those pieces of wood , but everybody now knows that the Portal can shine once again.