cravo : carnation

"ora passou-se porém
que dentro de um povo escravo
alguém que lhe queria bem
um dia plantou um cravo
era a semente da esperança
feita de força e vontade
era ainda uma criança
mas já era a liberdade."

"what happenned, however,
was that within a slave people
someone who wished them good
planted a carnation
it was the seed of hope
made of strengh and will
it was still a child

but it was already freedom"

José Carlos Ary dos Santos

Bristol (Inglaterra), 2007 : Bristol (England), 2007