Entirety
by Guilherme Bergamini from Belo Horizonte, Brazil
The abandonment of individuals by societies and their governments is both unjustifiable and unforgivable.
The Planet Earth will continue to shelter the Kingdoms of Barbarism and Insanity as long as there is a single human being insisting on not recognizing the integrity of everyone else, near or far from you. A single individual "from below" can implode the entire civilizing process, sucking it to its level and annihilating any efforts to achieve social justice, peace and planetary harmony.
There is an urgent need to recognize the fullness, the fragility and the power to add each one and everyone. Nobody is despicable, nobody is harmless, all life is of value. No nation is despicable, no nation is harmless, every nation is of value. No ethnicity is despicable, no ethnicity is harmless, all ethnicity is of value. No people are despicable, no people are harmless, all people are of value.Either we assume, each of us, our responsibility to the whole, taking care to respect it, or we will be much closer to our own extinction than we could imagine.
Ismália
by Alphonsus de Guimaraens
When Ismália went mad, she,
Dreaming in a tower high,
Saw a moon up in the sky,
Saw a moon down in the sea.
Then she started, dreamingly
Bathing in moonlight, to sigh
For the moon up in the sky,
For the moon down in the sea.
Lost in her insanity,
She sung there a lullaby:
She was so close to the sky,
She was so far from the sea.
Like an angel, finally,
She spread both her wings to fly
Toward the moon up in the sky,
Toward the moon down in the sea.
The two angel-wings that she
Got from God flapped and thereby
Her soul soared straight to the sky,
Her flesh sunk deep in the sea.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 1.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with
reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Co-author: Luiz Gomide
Music: Ismália (from a poem by Alphonsus de Guimaraens)
Composition: Luiz Gomide
Arrangement and piano: Rodrigo Lana
Video: Guilherme Bergamini
Editing: Guilherme Dutra
English translation of the poem: Nelson Ascher
English translation of credits: Tiago Gambogi & Margaret Swallow
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article I.
Performer: Anonymous
