Laura de Jesus

 

A Bê à Bá 

to fight superficiality

Kitten and babble the child 

little girl who still doesn't speak, 

discovering the world, the color, 

the smell, taste, and tongue of each object

And when he grows up and walks,

The proud and astute adult, 

already understands and shuts up!

Who doesn't like children

As long as they're innocent 

and cruel, because 

They don't know the proportions 

to keep or report,

they are conditional copies,

adult puppets,

these other cunning ones.

When they grow, they reveal themselves

in acts, much more than 

Than in the words, in the mirror 

of the congeners

skilled in modeling,

Copying, wise,

while crawling and wandering

Values and verticality of being

Don't expect them to see each other

In what you preach

and in their actions they clash;

they copy.

There is a noticeable difference

 Between being and having,

a noble antonym

between colleague and friend

Buddy anyone has, This is having. Friend is different because it implies loving, And this is, of course, being, Above all, to be loyal,

to yourself and to others,

in depth. But you don't do that

They can corrupt,

they can not even avoid,

only by doing, cultivating and being,

but they can nevertheless help

in the process of ideals.

Let's not make them a herd

that was born for clones and

forget not to teach them to question.

The world needs its whys,

as many as the answers,

and it will be in the collision

of vertigo and curiosity

that one learns to live

and so many times to understand

that to be a person, to be human

is to put on the shoes of the other,

Be sensitive and empathetic

It has nothing to do with age but with understanding that We're all the same And don't forget To show them What are the consequences of their acts that will Set your aurora

As well as your twilight That every ideal lacks of scruples Because there are those who believe That anything goes - Abject and limiting means - to achieve its ends And explain to them, along with that That humanity is the collective

And what individuality is the spark,

the drop, the difference

that will make each being a spark,

one more star in the world!