The First Monk

The first monk that arrived in America
brought his own God dead on a cross.
The firs monk that arrived in America
brought lices in his head,
rats under his habit
and crabs between his legs...

The first monk that arrived in America
had his face full of pox marks,
and to spread the Good News
he had to put on a mask made of wax.
And he baptized the children of the land
with the sweat from their foreheads,
and when the cross was turned into a sword
he baptized them in their own bood.
Considering that the indian had a soul
and they were on the brink of extinction
he hid them under his cloak,
and then he saw with horror how colonialists brought
twenty millions black people to the Continent
for force labours in the fields and in the mines.

The first monk that arrived in America
repent one day at the foot of his cross,
and wanted to become a penitent
to go in pilgrimage across the jumgle.
Crying under the Ceiba tree
he wrote with his tears
the longest and saddest story in the world...
the longest and saddest story in the world...
At the hour of his death
he feared the presence of an unknown God,
and the first monk that arrived in America
was the last one on this land to be converted
slowly to Christianity through the centuries
and centuries of centuries. Amen