The Candelária Massacre

When no shepherd

Yearns to guard the herd

And the cold night falls

Broken boundaries of shame

Never ending pain

Let the blood come down

I will burn all your tears

And grant you the end

To recall the scenes in every sore

Compassion I berate - I repudiate

In you I see no humanity

Bodies sprawled on the stairs

Does their god care?

I write on crooked lines

And cast the last stone

When we think of the lies

Spin the wheel of chance

Carnage with no regrets

Laid to waste

Remove the dust to justify

Your heinous ways

My shattered dreams raise memories

All gone astray

Recoiled in fear my fate is sealed

Brutal annihilation

No longer blind

Uncovering the spite

The stigma they bear

Is right in the eye

When we think of the lies

Spin the wheel of chance

Carnage with no regrets

Laid to waste

Candelária, the streets are on fire

Candelária, a ruthless empire

The last degree

Candelária