Saudade: an essay that goes nowhere

Saudade is a Portuguese term. As far as I am aware there's no real translation for it. At least not in languages spoken by yours truly. Simple nostalgia or melancholy won't do it justice. Wikipedia defines it as an emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent someone or something, often associated with a repressed understanding that one might never…