OLD WORLD

OLD WORLD (DENIS MENDONÇA)

How many lie;
We live in the world of lies;
There are many lies;
That the world is good...
Illumination;
To be transformed in world bad...
Darkness.

Why do they it with us?
Why do they want us to believe?
That all can loved;
When discover us, in the real;
It’s very, very easy, all, hate us.

Why care?
It’s very, very easy abandon;
You like to make a mistake;
You try to do right thing;
But Just to make a mistake;
Right... Mistake;
Mistake... Right...
It's funny, sometimes
To make a mistake it is Right!

The world is done by illusion;
How to the passion;
You can be a champion;
But I believe that sometimes;
You have fell alone;
In the center of crowd.

Sometime ,do you tried self meet?
How to difficult, self search;
And not found;
The others peoples is very easy imitation;
And very more fast self kill;
And never to adapt.

Do you tried self love?
So try! Do you go like;
And never self deception;
You go self better;
Who Know? Can fly.

In the world;
Evolution...
Is a word funny...
The human being, sometimes..
Just think in destruction...
And his excrement; cover
And the smell, never experience;
Now! this moment, think in construction;
Finish... Stop with the destruction;
C'mon smile;
And never to leave the dream part;
No import the solutions;

No import the decisions;
The sense of live is conclusion

S.Paulo, 21/11/2000

This translation of the poetry “Velho Mundo” by Denis Mendonça was done by Rosana Dragonne and Denis Mendonça.