BRAZIL OF MINE


The color that you see in my skin, is not the color of my spirit.
My abstract self has the color of the prettiest light. Light that, Illuminating you makes appear the color of your own abstract.
This is how you show yourself, how you reveal yourself to me,
How you like to be. Centuries had passed, slavery finished but, However, my presence still bothers you.

II

My love for you left the taste of revenge still in your mouth.
Your abstract self do not accept the joy and the beauty of my smile.
Your false superiority does not allow you to see the love that I have
For you. Your weakness makes you, unconsciously, fear me.
The hand that I extended to you, remains bare empty, you do not
Open the door, you do not invite me nor come
To pay me a visit.

III

The suffering that, through centuries, you imposed me,
Did not kill the joy of my spirit, neither silenced my voice nor
Suffocated my pleasure of singing and dancing.
I knocked at the front door of your home, you did not come to open it, You did not allow me to enter. Patiently, I leaned myself in it and
There I stood, because I had to recall you that I continued there, your Door did not resisted time, but I did.

IV

Today, frightened and with some unpleasantness, with me
You share your welfare. You have me in your table participating of
Your supper, I lie down with your daughters and, still thus, you continue To reject me. For how much time do you think that you can resist my
Presence? I want my space, I came to be. I am part of your
World, I conquer all the pains that you imposed me, I defeated
Time, I knocked down your door and your resistance. I am
Seated in your room, I am part of your family and
Patiently, I won against you.


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