Watercolor

Carnaúba dos Dantas - Brazil

Your eyes have

A non-defined color

And, perhaps because of this,

You ​can see the other tones in everything

From the cold gray

Of few shades,

That I coldly plan,

You can identify a small

Sick pink

That motivates my grit

In the green-water lies

That I tell to please you.

You only see the red

Bloody one

That burns me!

You see the invisible notes

With your eyes

Which color, then,

My mother,

Is the soul

That I have mixed

With mine?

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Alexandre Dantas is a doctor, teacher and writer. He was born and lived most of his life in one of the driest backlands of Brazil - where he returned 4 years ago, working as a rural doctor. He created the project "A Medicina Rural" on Instagram (@amedicinarural) in order to give visibility to the rural spaces in which he works and voice to the people who live in them.