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THE WALL
One day, they built it.
And said it was for our own security.
To protect us from each other.
Because, naturally, We are all barbarians.
No, no. we’re not ALL barbarians.
Only some of us are.
And it’s from those we will make sure we will part ourselves from,
they maintained.
Thus we go on detaching ourselves.
And isolating one another, we keep on building,
raising the "world".
Planting in the soil each brick and composting with cement
the concrete roughness we reap.
Each year moreover, the crop is wealthier,
but the number of wasted people increases
because with a diet like this
don’t expect to solve the problem of subsistence only by stuffing the mouth.
There is much more than fill the belly
and the sun can not be fade by a sieve.
I know... they insist on saying that today is better than ever
and tomorrow, that never comes, will be better than today.
Today is a new day, of a new time, that has begun.
In these new days Joy will be for all.
And until then?
Until then, we wait for the cement to dry,
after pasted every brick that was brought.
It is ironic that not so long ago they celebrated a demolition.
And they had a different discourse in that occasion.
or was it the same?
FREEDOM, EQUALITY,
and falling on deaf ears,
fraternity.
What changed from then on?
Few bricklayers can explain.
On the other hand it’s unlikely that architects, engineers and contractors
can exhibit the sands of this castle of inverted logic.
of illogical logic, absurd, completely misplaced.
And yet we ratify in this task force of silence.
Slaves of slavery itself, we don’t build but our own prisons.
Stone mazes where we keep hiding, in this big "hide-and-seek".
But after spicing the amalgam with sweat, blood and dream,
it becomes easy to accept that the construction is really that.
Even because if it was another, what has been done for that one?
what has been done for that other?
If the great Tsunami comes, the fable becomes meaningless.
But come on! The Big Bad Wolf is the real dangerous.
We even don’t walk in the forest anymore just to avoid that hideous beast called fear.
We prefer to be indoors but we don't seize the time to exercise the Kama Sutra
It is "this" virus circulating within the desire.
It is possible to justify the quarantine, and all intensive therapy.
Ok, I give up with all this ***.
But can you really see anything beyond the wall??
The horizon is already narrow.
The horizon is already narrow.
subtitles: Pedro Mafra