We only come to sleep, only to dream...

We only come to sleep, only to dream..., originally uploaded by carf.

All Soul's Day - Los Dias de los Muertos - The Day of the Dead – Dia dos Finados

80 million candles will be lit in every cemetary throughout Brazil.

Today, the 2nd.November, nearly 40.000 deaths last year, due to the uncontrolled use of firearms in this country, will be remembered.
More than 325.000 this last decade!

Yet Brazilians still voted in favour of them!

We only come to sleep, only to dream.
It is not true,
it is not true that we come to live on this earth!
We become as spring weeds,
we grow green and open the petals of our hearts;
our body is a plant in flower,
it gives flowers and it dies away.
Oh, we will go...rejoice!
I, Netzahualcóyotl, say.
Does one really live with roots in this earth?
Not always on this earth,
only a little while here!
Even jade breaks;
just as gold breaks,
Even the quetzal plumes fall apart:
Not always on this earth,
only a little while here!

- Netzahualcóyotl
(poet and king of Tezcoco 1402-1472)

Photo by Gregory J. Smith - CARF, São Paulo - BRAZIL.