new earth

In this piece of land impotence and impunity reign.
The dreams that once the child erased
colapse before the hard-working seeds every day.
And the child knows the kingdom is taken,
the lords and the ladies are wrong and mistaken,
they frighten the rain and dry the sowed land,
and worship the greedy gods who lie the dust and the sand.
The hurt child leaves the heart inspirited birth ground,
and runs through the fields and mountains not found.
Wisdom ensures the unknown path ahead,
new ways submerge and fight the spectrum of death.
It's time to step into the heavenly abyss;
in fact you are there and the tread is a pace to the fair:
believe in a new earth and in the end of despair.

(Conceição Sousa)

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