A Chusma Salva-se Assim

People of the sea are already walking
Making bundles and packs
Breaking into holds
Stealing chests and coffins
And leaving behind women
Abandoned children
Who cry very scared
With no other consolation
Than hugging each other
Swelling slowly from the waters
From the salty sips of death
Begging God for another fate
Gasping
Jerking
In tears
And vomiting
And some drown completely
Letting themselves sink
And surrendering
To the deepest sleep
Others scream to the heavens
For absolution
And then hang themselves
With their own hands
Dancing with death
Their legs fleshless
Torn in cracks and gashes
And so shattered
That in this part in pieces
Their bone marrow falls
And not knowing how to swim
Without the ship
Without a plank or stick
The world goes adorning
Falls into the sea
Falls into the sea

From that roasted boat
They build their salvation
People tied to the piece
By the waist by the neck
Going so loaded
They wound with knives and spears
The women the children
Clutching to the raft
But they pray Hail Marys
Our Fathers litanies
For the souls of the mutilated
Who are abandoned there
Gasping
Jerking
In tears
And vomiting
The boat is full
And almost sinking
To lighten the load
They throw people into the sea
Swallowing a sip of wine
And a piece of marmalade
The poor sailor
Even before being thrown
Then let himself be thrown
With crossed arms
And offered himself to death
So quiet and calm
And the pilot blessed
His two sons
That he himself threw
And not knowing how to swim
Without the ship
Without a plank or stick
The world goes adorning
Falls into the sea
Falls into the sea

Your daughter was small
And they didn't want to save her
She stayed in the nanny's arms
In the sinking big boat
Pleas from the raft
Finally
You raise your mother's arms
But no one listens to you
That's how the mob saves itself
Gaspar Ximenes
Silent
Don't cry out loud
Be careful
Just cry in your heart
Or you'll go like your brother
Gasping
Jerking
In tears
And vomiting
Days go by
Purely hungry and thirsty
And some swallow urine
And die from what they drink
Others from the salty water
Die from their senses
Always screaming for water
They throw themselves into the dry sea
The soldier and the Chinese go
No pain or sorrow remains
Mulatto Estêvão was thrown
With the same thirst for water
And in the afternoon of that aridity
The priest threw himself
And the pilot again
And not knowing how to swim
Without the ship
Without a plank or stick
The world goes adorning
Falls into the sea
Falls into the sea