Veterans

Veterans

The poem was made in homage to a veteran of the second world war, who after returning from the war went mad and disappeared without leaving any clue leaving the family in extreme shortage. After many years of searching it was given as death and the family could then benefit from the goods, which had been kidnapped by justice. One day a friend of one of his sons went to the Amazon jungle to take a training course for the Brazilian army, during the raid the team entered a village that had no contact with the nearest town that was many kilometers away. The soldier was startled by the physical and facial resemblance of the community religious leader, who was just like a portrait of his friend, whose father had disappeared 30 years earlier. Returning from the course, he took some photographs and said that he was the leader of the community, he would marry people, he would baptize people, he would be the judge, a doctor and a leader who determined all the rules established for the harmonious coexistence of the community, of guru. It was impossible to deny the resemblance. A team had to be displaced to regará the leader who in fact did not even know its identity, everything was planned very carefully, because the community defended it with tooth and nail. Very ill, not recognizing any relative, with a beard in the abdomen with cancer and extremely debilitated, he was hospitalized in the army hospital, and died a few months later, without knowing who he or his family was. This man was my uncle!