RED SONG by Sebastião Alba

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I love you Felisbela

With the silenced voice of my brotherly blood

From the deepest cave in Africa

Our hymn bursts into flower

The old jacarandas of your country

Orderly, I remain silent

But it is in your eyes that I root

My salty verses

I drown in them forever!

The pride that is taught

And that only defends me

Your naive hand beaten by centuries

I love you Felis

With the impetus of those rivers

That my grandparents dirty

I love you Felis

In the candid melody

Of the marimbas of your people

I love you Felis

In the rhythm of the message blind, pure

From the songs of your raped grandmothers

I love you Felis

With a love filled with tears

The same ones, dear,

That moistened in the ancient seas

The misty deck of their slave ships

But I will only tell you simply

When in the quiet light of the days that are- to come

My war cry and poet's cry

If it breaks in your mouth, finally free

In the naked kisses

From the shame that covers me.

In "The Whites”