INCARNATION

 

Text by Alceu Natali, copyright protected by Law 9610/98

GOODBYE TO MY MOTHER, CANDIDA B. Z. NATALI  

1927 - 2024

INCARNATION 

Adiemus, Adiemus!

Come closer, all of you who are from Italy and Portugal.

Do you want French or Brazilian children?

Open your eyes, because you are already in paradise.

Blessed be this land that welcomed you.

Adiemus, Adiemus!

Enter a Spanish woman's house without her daughter knowing.

Ask mothers, grandmothers, and their dogs, both alive and dead

Do you want Houdinian illusions or candid divinations?

Keep your eyes closed, because you are in a dream

Blessed be this sleep that rests you

Adiemus, Adiemus!

Dare to intrude on a funeral of the black aristocracy in Paris

Ask to have your coffin deported from the old to the new world

Do you want submissive or freed children?

Open your eyes because slavery has been abolished.

Blessed be this miscegenation that has beheld you.

Adiemus, Adiemus!

Be amazed by the purple velvet that covers all the walls.

Say goodbye to ballet and foreign language lessons.

Do you want children of kings or workers?

Close your eyes to those who disinherited you.

Blessed are those who have become your brothers.

Adiemus, Adiemus!

Sing with your hands raised to the sky.

Make all the castanets of the Spanish gypsies click.

Do you want to dance flamenco and baião at the same time?

Open your eyes to the lush green.

Blessed be the yellow of our flags.

Adiemus, Adiemus!

Leave the stormy skies

Come to the fertile soils

Your children are all foreigners

Embark on the same slave ships

And land on the water, on the land, and on the fire promised to mortals