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Landless Voices II

The colours of "Edi"

 

White,

Pink,

Blue,

Black.

 

Child,

Woman,

Man,

Black.

 

Each one with its colour

Each one with its own way.

But there is colour that is sorrow

And your sorrow condemns me.

 

Wear blue I do not want,

Pink I think it’s not my way.

I used white and black

Living like this was my karma.

 

Equality, respect

Right to be who I am.

Use the colour I want

And to be accepted by them.

 

I come to claim you

That disrespects me,

Do not accept.

I can be blood from your blood.

But the church rejects me.

 

I was devalued,

Homosexual, transvestite.

I'm just like you

Death, I already felt it.

 

I shout, I cry out of respect

May all accept me.

I am a human being,

I have feeling.

Do not feel sorry for me.

 

Poem composed by educator Roseli Lemonie

Chico Mendes Rural State School – Quedas do Iguaçu – Paraná.

Seminar: November 24-26, 2016.

© Landless Voices II

 

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